unpower

1. uncountableLack of power; weakness.

   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

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   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

present singular third person unpowers · participle present unpowering · participle past unpowered · past unpowered

1. transitiveTo remove the power from; power down or power off

   “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