How can we solve, or are we already solving, the feeling of being powerfully “out of gear with [our] surroundings” and yet straitjacketed by a highly advanced technocratic and necrotic globalized capitalist society, one that deprives us of our vital capacity for normativity in both senses of the word, i.e., the attainment of homeostatic states as well as the freedom to break them so as to adapt continuously through emergent responses? Through a discussion of artistic practice (Pierre Huyghe) and artful living (The ZAD), I will ask how this difficulty and discomfort might be considered an active, creative force already at work in remediating our environment.