i recently visited the local bookstore and purchased a copy of giorgio agamben's collections and essays in philosophy, titled potentiality. while reading the section on potentiality, i came across the term 'i can,' which was described as the most difficult and bitter experience one can have - the experience of potentiality. potentiality is a convergence of semiotic signifiers that momentarily pause and allow an impassive light to shine through. this light strips the subject of all certainty, meaning, and molar structures, and forces them to communicate with life itself and ask, 'what do you want from me?' this is a personal experience that confronts desire and duty, desire and fulfillment, but never desire and lack. this psychoanalytic schema forever alters one's consciousness.