The Becoming of the “Event”: A Deleuzian Approach to Understanding the Production of Social and Political “Events”

Lundborg, Tom

doi:10.1353/tae.0.0042

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“…Attending solely to these circumstances would falsely plot such events on path-dependent timelines, thereby failing to attend to the various ways of becoming that these events have, could have and will undergo (Kaiser, 2012). The productivity of the event must instead be taken into account; sense is not a faithful representation of a singular reality that is 'out there', passively waiting to be observed and reproduced (Lundborg, 2009). Deleuze views the event as being dynamic and creative; the event does not exist, rather it 'subsists' (Halewood, 2009).…”

Section: Eventmentioning

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“…Deleuze views the event as being dynamic and creative; the event does not exist, rather it 'subsists' (Halewood, 2009). For the past or future to become linked to a present and a singular becoming to be translated into a form of 'being' (Lundborg, 2009), a process of actualisation must occur from the domain of the virtual (Beck and Gleyzon, 2016). The virtual here refers to 'a realm of potential' (Massumi, 2002: 30, emphasis original).…”

Section: Eventmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This realm of potential includes the ‘ideas’ or ‘multiplicities’ that set out the many ways in which a society, language or state of affairs can exist (Protevi, 2009), as well as the affective intensities that could become triggered in the present (Kaiser, 2012). In turn, the process of actualisation refers to the ‘will’ for an individual action or expression to emerge from the potential and the means with which the potential is translated into what is (Lundborg, 2009; Massumi, 2002).…”

Section: Multiplicity and Actualisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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To fail an asylum seeker: Time, space and legal events

2021

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Legal geographers have recently highlighted the importance of attending to the interaction of time and space to understand law and its enactment. We build on these efforts to examine the spatiotemporal influences over the processes by which asylum claim determination procedures in Western industrialised countries seek to reconstruct past events for the purposes of deciding refugee claims. Two ‘common-sense’ beliefs underpin this reconstruction: that the occurrences leading to a fear of persecution can be isolated and that the veracity of an asylum claim is objectively independent from the process of uncovering it. We critically interrogate these assumptions by conceptualising the fears of people seeking asylum as Deleuzian ‘events’. Basing our argument on 41 interviews with people who have previously claimed asylum in the United Kingdom and firsthand accounts of asylum appeals, we explore the folding together of asylum ‘truths’ and the spatiotemporal processes by which they are arrived at, arguing that refused asylum claims are not simply detected by the process – they are produced by it.

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Section: Eventmentioning

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Section: Eventmentioning

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Section: Multiplicity and Actualisationmentioning

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To fail an asylum seeker: Time, space and legal events

2021

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“…Studying fractures in a discourse, thereby searching to conceptualize how to deal with multiplicity or contestation, has become pressing in policy inquiry, especially in times of plurality of knowledge and in times of ambivalent hierarchies in increasingly globalized and networked democracies. Some works in the interpretation of politics have thus suggested turning away from meaning structures to dramaturgy (Hajer, 2005) or to physical performances (Edkins, 2015) and the staging of events, referring explicitly to Deleuze (Lundborg, 2009). That we constantly run the risk of repressing the subjective meaning of an event through some codifying mechanism is essential to the Deleuzian notion of meaning-making (Deleuze, 1968(Deleuze, , 1975.…”

Section: Understanding Intersubjectivity Through Foucault and Deleuzementioning

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Understanding Emotions in Policy Studies through Foucault and Deleuze

Durnová

2018

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Discussing Foucault’s and Deleuze’s work on meaning-making, the article argues that we might make better use of the intersubjectivity of a meaning when interpreting emotions. Interpreting emotions in texts remains complicated because discussion on the ontological character of emotions sustains an opposition of emotion to meaning structures. Both Foucault and Deleuze conceive meaning-making through permanent oscillation between the subjective accounts of a meaning and its collective interpretation. These two dimensions are not in conflict but create meaning through their interdependence. On the basis of this interdependence, we can conceive of an interpretive analysis of emotions as a way to study language means that label particular emotions as relevant, legitimized, or useful. This shift of the debate on emotions away from what emotions <em>are</em> and toward what they <em>mean</em> enhances the critical shape of interpretive analysis of emotions because it uncovers conflicts hidden behind the veil of allegedly neutral policy instruments.

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“…This enables an approach to events that emphasizes their historical unfolding. From this perspective, the event expresses “a becoming that escapes the present moment in time as well as the corporeal content of the subject” (Lunborg 2009). Events for Deleuze, then, are creative, emergent, and constitutive of new realities.…”

Section: Temporalitymentioning

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Terror, Territoriality, Temporality: Hypermedia Events in the Age of Islamic State

Kraidy

2017

Television & New Media

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Considering the group that calls itself Islamic State (IS) as a “war machine,” an ever-shifting combination of humans and technology, this article articulates, from a Deleuzian perspective, terror, territoriality, and temporality as constitutive of events. It explores terrorism as a hypermedia event that resists conceptual containment in Dayan and Katz’s three categories of “contest,” “conquest,” or “coronation.” It builds on work that recognizes the globality of media events. The article uses the rise of IS to explore events as a peculiar articulation of space and time, and draws on the global “network-archive” that IS created (its digital footprint), the referentiality of which means that we experience IS depredations as one continuous “global event chain.” In this analysis, media events are a productive force that articulates territoriality and temporality through affect.

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The Becoming of the “Event”: A Deleuzian Approach to Understanding the Production of Social and Political “Events”

Cited by 8 publications

References 2 publications

To fail an asylum seeker: Time, space and legal events

To fail an asylum seeker: Time, space and legal events

Understanding Emotions in Policy Studies through Foucault and Deleuze

Terror, Territoriality, Temporality: Hypermedia Events in the Age of Islamic State

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