untimely

is a 'sovereign contempt' of the key values that underlie a culture (i.e. The good, the place of history). It aims to be not understood by the present in order to change it's values.

is another name for becoming. It privileges forgetting as opposed to memory, geography as opposed to history, the map as opposed to the tracing, the rhizome as opposed to arborescence.

Nietzsche opposes history not to the eternal but to the subhistorical or superhistorical: the Untimely, which is another name for haecceity, becoming, the innocence of becoming (in other words, forgetting as opposed to memory, geography as opposed to history, the map as opposed to the tracing, the rhizome as opposed to arborescence). (D&G 'thousand' : 296)

is the 'too soon' that is also 'too late' of an 'already' that is also a 'not yet'.

And this urgency is the untimeliness, the anachronism that permits us to grasp our time in the form of a 'too soon' that is also a 'too late'... of an 'already' that is also a 'not yet.' (Agamben 2009: 47)

is the act of thinking the past against the present in favor of a time to come.

to think the past against the present which would be nothing more than a common place, pure nostalgia, some kind of return, if he did not immediately add: 'in favor, I hope, of a time to come' (Deleuze Two Regimes of Madness 241)

is the idea of thinking the past against the present.

to think the past against the present. . .

is the idea that because philosophers speak for tomorrow, they are necessarily out of place in the here and now, and are always struggling against the spirit of the present.

Because they speak for tomorrow, they are necessarily out of place in the here and now, and are always struggling against the spirit of the present. (sparknotes nietzsche beyond)

untimely, n.Definitions

untimely