Human expression is a multiple narrative that reveals a quest characterised by an exchange between sacrifice and happiness. As art, this exchange is constructed by the lives of women and men who fight and die by way of a nostalgic humanity in which they vest their hopes and sense of belonging. A nostalgic humanity pertains to a memorial polity moved by the will to return and reclaim by force of the homecoming—the nóstos—of freedom and democracy, whose time scale is plural by way of its many ends.

This memorial polity enfolds through a history that stands out of the myth of necessary time. The myth of necessity considers human history as a series of curtailed stories where memory is substituted by the fallacy of viable ends. As the leading ideology of ‘viability’, contemporary empiricism—like its bedfellow, practicism—deliberately precludes wonderment and prevents the grammar of contingent time from human history. (pp. 39-40)