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In the normal course of events, things first have to be possible and can only actualize themselves afterwards. It is the feeling that seizes us when faced with the occurrence of something that happens without having been possible. We see the same paradox again in the mix of jubilation and terror that characterized, in a more or less unspoken way, the event of 11 September. Before it broke out, it appeared both possible and impossible (the similarity with the suspense surrounding the Iraq war is total), and at the same time he experienced a sense of stupefaction at the ease with which such a fearful eventuality could pass from the abstract to the concrete, from the virtual to the real. “Bergson felt the event of the First World War this way. The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact These alone are 'real', since there is nothing to explain them and the imagination welcomes them with open arms.”
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Only events set free from news and information (and us with them) create a fantastic longing. To make a literal analysis of it, against all the machinery of commentary and stage-management that merely neutralizes it. To find, as it were, the 'living coin' of the event. We have, then, to pass through the non-event of news coverage (information) to detect what resists that coverage. It is beyond all possible causes (and perhaps even, as Italo Svevo suggests, causes are merely a misunderstanding that prevents the world from being what it is). The CIA's experts had at their disposal all the information on the possibility of an attack, but they simply didn't believe in it. But it is as impossible to represent that event) as it was to forecast it before it occurred. September 11 th, for example, is there first - only then do its possibility and its causes catch up with it, through all the discourses that will attempt to explain it. It is too late also for representation, and nothing will really be able to account for it. “Before the event it is too early for the possible.Īfter the event it is too late for the possible.