Appeal to “event” enables Foucault to avoid such “magical” concepts as historical “influence” and vague notions like “continuity” by proliferating events without number. An event, he explains, is not a decision, a treaty, a reign, or a battle, but the reversal of a relationship of forces, the usurpation of power, the appropriation of a vocabulary turned against those who had once used it, a feeble domination that poisons itself as it grows lax, the entry of a masked “other.” (LCP, 154)