This paper explores different possibilities for considering the role experience plays in political change. We introduce the concept of continuous experience to gain purchase on modes of everyday existence which are fluid, dispersed and never unified. Continuous experience interrupts and tarries with time; things, people and situations are affected by continuous experience not as it is interpreted or represented but as it materialises. Secondly, we investigate how imperceptible modes of sociability operate against and beyond given modes of political representation, such as state-politics, identity politics and micropolitics. We use the term ‘outside politics’ to discuss strategies of political engagement after representation; that is, strategies of dis-identification and imperceptibility.