ABSTRACT
Following Chapters 5 and 6 it seems that we have two different ways of thinking about politics and the event. While the politics explored in Chapter 5 focused on a sovereign practice of producing the content and temporal borders of the historical event, Chapter 6 considered alternative encounters with the event, mainly by trying to come much closer to the paradoxes and movements of the pure event – paradoxes and movements that seem to lack a direct connection to the linear timelines and narrative orders of history and historical events. Lacking a direct connection to the latter, these alternative encounters open up to another politics of the event – a politics that relates to an active process and experimental practice of drawing new lines, without having any already established lines – of history, society, and the world – to fall back on. Thus, while the former politics operates mainly within the limits of history and seeks to reaffirm those limits, the latter politics operates beyond the limits of history and seeks to open up to something completely different and new. Against this backdrop, an important question which remains to be addressed is how to analyze the relationship between these two different ways of thinking about politics and the event. By way of conclusion, therefore, I will address this question by returning to some of the main themes of the previous chapters of this book, in particular Chapters 5 and 6, and discuss the relationship between them.
