CURRENTLY READING: FUTURABILITY — THE AGE OF IMPOTENCE AND THE HORIZON OF POSSIBILITY
‘The history of modern politics and civilization intended as the imposition of a technological order is here sketched: the Machiavellian definition of power is based on the distinction between feminine (the chaotic and capricious proliferation of possible events, potentialities rushing out of the depths of nature), and masculine will that imposes order on the flow, subjecting the flow to the rule of discrimination’ (p. 72).