Perhaps more than any other domain or form of communication, political discourse slips away from questions of meaning. That is, the success and/or failure of a way of speaking in politics cannot be explained by what it says. Consequently, it is necessary to turn to the asignifying logic underlying and grounding discursive meaning. In order to do this, I will use Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's conceptual framework, especially the concepts of 'ritornello' and 'territory', which are fleshed out in their book A Thousand Plateaus (1980). Ritornello (sometimes also translated as 'refrain') can be defined as a repeating or returning formula, mark, sign, etc., which marks a territory. Through marking a territory, ritornellos also construct the beings inhabiting this territory (they create territorial creatures) and movements, rhythms, temporalities, etc., which are "proper" to it (specific dynamics between reterritorialization and deterritorialization). Ritornello marking a territory is an asignifying semiotic process that grounds discursive meaning through repetition that will ultimately mark a certain kind of boundary between the possible and the impossible. In this presentation, I will make a case for the importance these concepts for political semiotics and argue that they will grant us a better understanding of the elusive phenomenon of affect.