Power is classically understood as the playing out of relations between the ruler and the ruled. Political impasse is often viewed as a moment in which no clear-cut delineation of power exists, resulting in an overwhelming sense of frustration or feeling stuck in a no-win situation. The new globalised world has produced a real shift in how power works: not only has power been concentrated in the hands of very few while many millions become more oppressed by radical shortages and growing costs, but we also have a new category of political subjectivity in which many find themselves neither rulers nor radically oppressed. Those who live the neither/nor of contemporary power live the new global impasse.
For those of us who are stuck and compelled to wait for dominant power to break, this book uncovers possibilities in thought, imagination, and self-appropriation through oikeiosis, that is, making oneself at home in oneself, and constancy.

Antonio Calcagno is Professor of Philosophy at King's University College, Western University, Canada.

Preface

1. Introduction
2. Deeper Conditions of the Contemporary Impasse: The Fatigue of Forms of Change and the Rise of a New Form of Political Impasse
3. Badiou, Foucault, Deleuze, and Esposito: In-Between the Ruler-Ruled Relation of Political Power?
4. Alain Badiou on the Event and the Possibility and Impossibility of Impasse
5. Foucault, Resistance, Subjectivation and the Overcoming of a Temporary Impasse
6. Gilles Deleuze and the Impasse of the Societies of Control
7. Roberto Esposito, Impasse, and the Immunological Paradigm of Political Life
8. Resistance in Immunity: Life, Person and the Impersonal
9. As Long as There is Life, There is Hope and The Possibility of Resistance?
10. Possibility in the New Political Impasse
11. Recovery of a Zone of Selfhood that is Our Own: Oikeiosis
12. The Emergence of World, The Inner, and Auto-Affection
13. The Manifestation of a World
14. Auto-Affection: The Opening onto the Inner Life
15. Self-Becoming: To Feel and Live Oneself Anew?
16. Thinking
17. How Does Thinking Affect Political Impasse?
18. Imagination
19. Judgement
20. Willing
21. Newness and the Inner Turn Communifying Possibility and Hope
22. Dilating the Time of Impasse From Within
23. The Possible Present: A Threshold
24. The Time of Being-Held in Being and the Giving of Time
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index