Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Text
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Political History and the Diagnostic of Revolutionary Praxis
- 2 Intervention and the Future Anterior
- 3 The Body Politic and the Process of Participation
- 4 Political Affinity and Singular-Universal Solidarity
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - Intervention and the Future Anterior
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Text
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Political History and the Diagnostic of Revolutionary Praxis
- 2 Intervention and the Future Anterior
- 3 The Body Politic and the Process of Participation
- 4 Political Affinity and Singular-Universal Solidarity
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Unlike history, becoming cannot be conceptualized in terms of past and future. Becoming revolutionary remains indifferent to questions of a future and a past of the revolution; it passes between the two. Every becoming is a block of coexistence.
(Deleuze and Guattari 1987: 358/292)Introduction
In Chapter 1, I argued that political history should be used as a multi-centred political diagnostic to construct a revolutionary praxis. But how do revolutionary events emerge from this polyvalent intersection of representational processes (coding, overcoding, axiomatisation) and sustain something new? How are these processes ‘warded off by other means’? This is an important question left unanswered both by Deleuze and Guattari's concept of historical topology and by my proposed concept of a multi-centred diagnostic. While Deleuze and Guattari's theory of political topology may be able to provide us with the tools to diagnose the three processes of political representation, it is unable to account for how such processes are replaced by revolutionary interventions. That is, if a political arrangement is composed of multiple, coexistent processes (present to varying degrees), as discerned by an immanent diagnostic of the event, how can the situation then be transformed? How can we assess the risks of such an intervention? Who and what is intervening, and upon what do they intervene?
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- Returning to RevolutionDeleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo, pp. 80 - 109Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2012