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There are two forms of potency. Positive potency is the power to do something. Negative potency, in contrast, is the power not to do—to adopt Nietzsche’s phrasing, the power to say no.
The Burnout Society
Byung-Chul Han
The struggle for Hindi, in a form from which its Urdu heritage was separated, became a means for the upper-caste groups, some of whom had substantial landed interest, to establish political identity. Once established, this identity was used from the late thirties onwards to fulfil a hegemonic political agenda. This political use of Hindi speeded up its transformation from being a spoken language into becoming a narrow dialect of educational and political communication.
Political Agenda of Education
Krishna Kumar
Smith didn’t think that state protections and subsidies were inherently wrong (he saw a need for them in some circumstances), but __he had two main concerns. First, government gifts to the rich were doled out too arbitrarily: he wanted the science of subsidies to improve. And second, he thought the revenue generated from government subsidies wasn’t shared fairly among the wider polity.__
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
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