1. Introduction: the historical event and the pure event 2. Something abstract yet real: paradoxes and movements of the pure event 3. Returning, rebuilding, reimagining: actualization and counter-actualization 4. The becoming of 9/11 5. The politics of folding 6. Another politics of the event 7. Conclusion: within and beyond the limits of the historical event
Biography
Tom Lundborg is a research fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden.
For some time international studies discipilnes have needed a perspicuous account and application of thinking in time - thinking the "event" a la Deleuze - as an antidote to simplistic geopolitical frames for analyzing global conflicts. Tom Lundborg's Politics of the Event fulfills that need admirably.
Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai'i
Tom Lundborg shows us how to think with and about Deleuze’s philosophy of the event. He also offers a series of profound, disturbing and sometimes moving meditations on the ‘event’ of September 11, 2001. Drawing on Deleuze’s, distinction between historical and ‘pure’ events, as well as associated concepts such as actualization, becoming and folding, this book is a challenge as well as a guide to thinking differently about events. It will be valuable to anyone with an interest in the nature of the events that punctuate our political and social life, but especially to those in the fields of politics and international relations, philosophy and social theory.
Paul Patton, Professor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales
