捷瑟敏

It all starts with a suicide, through the burning of a man who has been made redundant, whose miserable commerce that allows him to survive is threatened to be banned, and with a woman police officer slapping him to make him understand what is real in this world. This gesture expands within days, weeks, until millions of people cry their joy in a faraway square and the powerful rulers flee. Where does this fabulous expansion come from? The propagation of an epidemic of freedom? No. As Jean-Marie Gleize poetically puts it: “A revolutionary movement does not expand by contamination. But by resonance. Something emerging here resonates with the shock wave emitted by something out there.” This resonance, let’s name it “event.” The event is the sudden creation, not of a new reality, but of a myriad of new possibilities.