negative capability as a social theory negative capability is more fully articulated as a social theory by roberto unger in his work on false necessity it differs slightly from keats in that he uses it to describe the individual's challenge to an existing social order and the capacity to collapse the distance between a context preserving routine and a context transforming challenge in this way it is less about uncertainty and more about a state of empowering resistance albeit not necessarily within a stable institutional space i am prepared to add unger's use of negative capability to this entry but not sure how to integrate it to what is already here on the one hand it is much more developed than anything keats produced but also done so in a different context in this manner relegating keats to background section of the entry might not work nor would it really do justice to the legacy of poetry and english litalthough this part of the entry needs to be developed more so any suggestions ideas on how to integrate or should we create two separate entries e g negative capacity poetry and negative capacity philosophy social theory