ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with some methodological themes concerning the study of subversion, focussing on two central questions: in what ways can subversion be produced by retarding an effect of power, and how does this deficiency cause sterility in the subjects that become involved? The central issue is how can subversion be done in a way that produces certain dynamism but no longer power as the entity actually has fallen into sterility. In subversion nothing functions properly, so its effects are anxiety, depression and self-harm. Sterility is a falsity, something unreal; still, it surrounds us, being even invasive; it exists but exists outside ponderability. Technology is false, either because it itself is unreal or because the impression derived through technology is erratic. In a similar way, divination also produces sterility, lagging behind power, and considered awkward. Still, it is an error with a colossal magnetic dynamism, as this chapter intends to show through historical examples.
