The movement could make a situation, and then the gesture would start to look different in it. In this view the present is not always a sense of something fleeting or a meta-physical experience of loss; nor is it mainly a dumping ground of anachronistic historical forces. When the disturbance of the gesture is lived as adjustment, remediation, or adaptation, the present is a stretch of time that is being sensed and shaped—an impasse. (Berlant, Cruel optimism)