"unpower" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1995, Kenneth Maly, The Path of Archaic Thinking",
          "text": "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 — [...]",
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          "text": "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 [...]",
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          "ref": "2015, Hent de Vries, Nils F. Schott, Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World",
          "text": "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.",
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