9781803096452
9781803096445
160 pages | 6 x 9 | © 2026
Philosophy: Philosophy of Society, Political Philosophy
Sociology: Social Change, Social Movements, Political Sociology

Table of Contents
1. The Trouble with Abundance
1.1 A Surplus of Potential
1.2 Aristotle vs the School of Megara
1.3 To have ‘dynamis’
1.4 Misunderstandings
1.5 Genealogy of impotence
2. The Art of Suffering
2.1 How to Weather the Winds of Fate
2.2 The Actions of Sufferers
2.3 Welcoming, Withdrawing, Adhering, Resisting
2.4 The Collapse of Reception
2.5 A menage a trois
3. Omissions and Renunciations
3.1 Negative Actions
3.2. Proclaiming a State of Impotence
3.3 The Faculty to Suspend
3.4 On Limit
3.5 Omitting Omissions, Renouncing Renunciations
3.6 Political-theological Note
4. Two Kinds of Habit
4.1 Modes of Possession
4.2 The ever-present in-between
4.3 Managing or Using Potential
4.4 Civil War
5. An Incumbent Infinity
5.1. Archaic Representations
5.2. The Misadventures of Use Grappling with Boundlessness
5.3 The Primacy of Relation
5.4. Action comes last
5.5. From Task to Performance
5.6. Physiognomic Gloss
6. Institutions
6.1 Provisional Moral (of the Story)
6.2 The Good Government of Infinity
6.3 The Ambivalence of the Institution: an Exercise of Use and a Usable Thing
6.4 Techniques, Experiments, Ideas
6.5 The Subversion of Hexis-management
6.6 On the Institutional Meaning of Renunciation
6.7 Endgame
1.1 A Surplus of Potential
1.2 Aristotle vs the School of Megara
1.3 To have ‘dynamis’
1.4 Misunderstandings
1.5 Genealogy of impotence
2. The Art of Suffering
2.1 How to Weather the Winds of Fate
2.2 The Actions of Sufferers
2.3 Welcoming, Withdrawing, Adhering, Resisting
2.4 The Collapse of Reception
2.5 A menage a trois
3. Omissions and Renunciations
3.1 Negative Actions
3.2. Proclaiming a State of Impotence
3.3 The Faculty to Suspend
3.4 On Limit
3.5 Omitting Omissions, Renouncing Renunciations
3.6 Political-theological Note
4. Two Kinds of Habit
4.1 Modes of Possession
4.2 The ever-present in-between
4.3 Managing or Using Potential
4.4 Civil War
5. An Incumbent Infinity
5.1. Archaic Representations
5.2. The Misadventures of Use Grappling with Boundlessness
5.3 The Primacy of Relation
5.4. Action comes last
5.5. From Task to Performance
5.6. Physiognomic Gloss
6. Institutions
6.1 Provisional Moral (of the Story)
6.2 The Good Government of Infinity
6.3 The Ambivalence of the Institution: an Exercise of Use and a Usable Thing
6.4 Techniques, Experiments, Ideas
6.5 The Subversion of Hexis-management
6.6 On the Institutional Meaning of Renunciation
6.7 Endgame
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