ABSTRACT
Revolutionary politics has become indissociable from the panic of raw creativity. The Black Panthers would not 'romanticise the consequences of revolution in the life time. There is, Newton argues, little chance of participating in a revolution and then dying of old age, and he claimed to have no expectation of seeing the revolution fulfilled in his lifetime. Newton's analysis of the racial politics and catastrophic trajectory of the United States formed a central pillar in the Jonestown signifying regime. For Virilio, Deleuze and Guattari's vision, far from allowing us a politics of deterritorialisation, is determinately transpolitical. In this sense, he follows through on the eschatological implications of Deleuze and Guattari's thought: his own millenarian narrative defining our society as set on an inevitable path to self-abolition. Deleuze and Guattari's conception of the book as machine entails a profound recognition of the rupture that makes faithful readings possible.
