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... ignores plants’ violent impotentiality and thus reduces plant life to mere passive, hospitable nature. To avoid this reduction (a violence of theory), this essay argues that an “auto-reject” position might be a better approach for a more veritable “critical plant studies.” © 2018 by Brown University...

.... In fact, the pairing of these two phrases, with the affirmative “I can” followed by the interrogative “can’t I,” signals that every potentiality is accompanied by an impotentiality. Bersani thus asks a question that, in its entirety, conveys the idea that the virtualities (dreams) instituted...

...-grounding of Being (Homo 40–41; Potentialities 254). In contrast to the absolute realization of sovereign will, the excess of potentiality, Agamben argues, persists in the political order in the form of impotentiality...