The modern outlook on emancipation has made its quest inseparable from a quest for endless enhancement, based on an ever-more intensive exploitation of the biophysical world. This accounts for how unsustainable ways of living are reiterated worldwide, in spite of evidence of their deleterious effects. The underpinnings of unsustainability, and a major impediment to conceiving alternatives, come from an account of the human as ontologically indeterminate, crushed on doing, both vulnerable and powerful towards the world. The impasse of such ambivalence hampers social theory critique, from post-humanist ontologies to the case for degrowth and lifestyle politics. The article outlines a different take on emancipation. An account is provided of form-of-life as a doing tailored to being – not as a self-enclosed monad but as a result of the encounter between own ‘inclination’ and the world. This theoretical perspective discloses a research program on emergent mobilisations.

基于对生物物理世界的日益深入的开发，现代解放观使其追求与对无休止的增强的追求密不可分。这说明了不可持续的生活方式在世界范围内是如何被重申的，尽管有证据表明它们的有害影响。不可持续性的基础，以及构思替代方案的主要障碍，来自于人类在本体论上不确定，被压在做事上，对世界既脆弱又强大的描述。这种矛盾心理的僵局阻碍了社会理论批判，从后人文主义本体论到退化和生活方式政治的案例。这篇文章概述了对解放的不同看法。生命形式被提供为一种为存在量身定制的行为——不是作为一个自我封闭的单子，而是作为自己的“倾向”与世界之间相遇的结果。这个理论视角揭示了一个关于紧急动员的研究计划。