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?