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The Man Who Will Be: Essays on identity and the future that is inhabited
Paperback
Series: The Diptych of Identity
PhilosophyLetters & EssaysGeneral Sociology
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 10 2026
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What happens when the future stops being a possibility and becomes a date?
One day, a person receives a notification. It doesn't matter which. It could be a deportation order. It could be a medical diagnosis. It could be a termination letter, a lawsuit, a bankruptcy, or the announced end of a marriage.
The facts haven't happened yet.
But something already has.
Identity.
Before the body moves, identity moves first. It begins rehearsing futures. Reorganizing priorities. Abandoning plans. Inhabiting possibilities incompatible with one another. The outer life stays the same.
The inner life no longer does.
In this book, Carlos A. Filerio explores the invisible territory that exists between the notification and the outcome: that interval where the individual is still who he was, but can no longer inhabit the future in the same way.
Drawing on a real migrant experience, the author builds a reflection that transcends migration to examine a deeply human condition: the transformation of the self under the pressure of time.
Throughout these pages, concepts emerge - prospective identity, temporal overlap, institutional anchoring, identity suspension, and the freedom of dispossession - building toward a central question:
What happens to a person when they begin becoming someone else before the facts force them to?
The Man Who Will Be is the conceptual continuation of The Man Who Was. If that book examined identity's relationship with the past, this one explores something more unsettling: identity's relationship with the future. Because some losses occur after the fact.
And others begin long before.
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