What is in potency is not in action. While something is in this state, it has as much potentiality to be as potentiality to not-be. Desire is what precisely resolves this potentiality into action. But what is the relation between desiring and being able to take action in a society where the potentiality of not is so inhibited? Being a force that overflows –thus, previous to action– it would be necessary for us to have the option to desire to can-no act, for this action to resolve itself potently. But if we would exclude this can-no of our level of thought, reducing the field of possibilities to only one likely choice in which it can no longer be desired –in other words, I can't desire to can-no– our actions would be lacking in potency in th...