What would a potentiality that dwells in non-actuality look like? What form does a potentiality that resists actuality take? Agamben likens it to a shadow [skotos]. Agamben returns to Aristotle’s discussion of sensation, and focuses on his treatment of sight and color. He points out that for Aristotle, where the “color” of actuality is light, darkness is the “color” of potentiality. Insofar as potentiality precedes actuality, darkness forebodes the potentiality of sight/light. The crucial point Agamben wants to make here is that even when we deprive our senses of sight, as illustrated in the act of closing our eyes (a form of privation in the sense noted above), we nonetheless are able to distinguish darkness from light, that is to say, we are able to see darkness. But what does it mean to say we “see” darkness? For Agamben, this experience of darkness is the experience of potentiality in-itself. Rather than saying that we cannot see when we are in the dark, that we merely only have the potential to see, what happens when darkness itself becomes the object of our sight, when the “actuality” of sight is in the darkness of potentiality?