Politinio įvykio materialumas Gilles’io Deleuze’o ir Felixo Guattari filosofijoje
Virtual Materiality of the Political Event in the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the possibility of political event in Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy. In Deleuze and Guattari’s thought, the political event can become material only when it passes from a transcendent plane of organization to an immanent plane of consistency. The representative quantitative multiplicity discussed by Kant is complemented with the Bergsonian theory of virtual multiplicities which allows real differences to express themselves. The possibilities realize, thus carrying with themselves a plan or program of becoming; the virtualities actualize, breaking with the rules of representation and bringing in the power of unpredictability. The desiring community, which, according to Deleuze and Guattari, is produced by minor politics, is compared with the concept of multitude produced by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. The multitude rests on a plane of organization, whereas the desiring community constructs a plane of consistency. The material event, as seen by Deleuze and Guattari, cannot be mediated, determined or reduced to causal chains – it happens in “any place whatever” – an unexpected place close to us.

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