As Hugh Grady notes, both the attraction and the difficulty of ‘utopian’s first developer’, Ernst Bloch, are that he remains in some sense sui generis in configuring an output that is ‘encyclopedic, covering an immense number of fields and topics’. In following this train of thought and in tracking a philosophical and religious parallelism between Lear and Job, this chapter focuses briefly on Bloch’s characteristically speculative take on Atheism in Christianity (1968), where he analyses heretical traditions and movements which precede Shakespeare, including the experimental mysticism of Meister Eckhart, as well as the revolutionary politics of Thomas Münzer. In exploring the challenge that mystic discourse offers to the more established political theologies of sovereignty and subjection, Bloch and Eckhart each offer the possibility of a materialist cognition that is contingent and open to transformation in its immanent refusal of the world and ‘worldly’ authority. In considering the generic condition of utopia in the ‘here and now’—as a utopia of the world-less ‘finite common real’—the chapter concludes by exploring the contemporary resonance of Shakespeare’s figure of unaccommodation Poor Tom alongside Fred Moten’s recent theorization of black sociality within a fugitive field of ‘unowning’ which Moten terms the undercommons.