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Lack of power; weakness. quotations examples
Paradoxically, it is this unpower that proceeds to produce the suppressive superpower of metaphysics and that inscribes in Sallis' s work or in his "deconstructive" strategy — I would even say, in his hyperdeconstructive strategy — [...]
1995, Kenneth Maly, The Path of Archaic Thinking
I have referred to Makbara 's (lost) inspiration as 'unpower', a term that I take from Derrida's reading of Artaud. As Derrida explains, unpower is not simply a lack of power, not merely impotence or verbal sterility; unpower is actually inspiration [...]
1996, Bradley S. Epps, Significant violence
But what does it mean to question the question of the principle of reason? Here, it seems to me, we may risk introducing the concept (but is it a concept?) of unpower.
2015, Hent de Vries, Nils F. Schott, Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World
third-person singular simple present unpowers, present participle unpowering, simple past and past participle unpowered
(transitive) To remove the power from; power down or power off quotations examples
“Desperate to retrieve the webscrolls and unpower the staff, which could only be done by tossing it into The Saline Sea, [...]”
2010, Deron Rennick, The Webscrolls of Dim Sorcery