Modern political theory is a set of claims about the structure of agency in the (singular) ‘real world’ - expressing ‘geontopower’ even as it critiques it. Claims about agency or reality generally are ethical in nature, express ethical ontological commitments.

“beginning with an ontological claim and then moving to the social, political, and historical implications of that claim recapitulates a form of colonial reason even as it seeks to confront and unravel it.” Between Gaia and Ground p.23

Modernity is totalising, not a totality. Slippages are everywhere. The capture is where we allow our lives to be instrumentalised, the spiritual surrender of love and life to the lifeless artefacts of domination (Commodity fetishism, laws, technologies, etc). You can’t be given agency, only the conditions in which you might find it for yourself.