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Il ne s’agit pas de possibles « purs et simples », de possibles abstraits, mais de « possibles vivants », puisqu’ils sont déjà engagés dans une certaine situation, dans des conditions spécifiques qui sont celles de l’intermittence, du marché de l’emploi culturel, de la refondation sociale, du traitement du chômage par l’activation des dépenses passives, etc. – et pourtant, ils ne sont pas déjà là, ils ne préexistent pas à l’événement, puisqu’ils sont créés par l’événement et qu’ils arrivent avec lui.
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In the case we are most interested in, the event is a date and a place: the night between the 26th and the 27th of June 2003, at the theatre La Colline, where thousands of people, pushed by their rejection of the ‘reform’, crossed a political and existential threshold. The crossing of this threshold was instantaneous and collective and produced a rupture, a discontinuity in ‘history’ and subjectivity. The event does not affect the state of things it emerges from without first affecting the subjectivities that partake and position themselves in it, saying ‘no’. Something changed in the life and society that interrogates subjectivity: what happens, what’s happened, what will happen? This instantaneous subjective change is an act of both resistance and creation, resistance to power and creation of possibilities whose limits are not clearly established. These possibilities are not just ‘pure and simple’ or abstract; they are ‘living possibilities’ because they are already involved in a given situation, in the specific conditions of intermittence, of the cultural labour market, the re-foundation of the social, the treatment of unemployment by the activation of passive spending, etc. For this reason, they are not already there, prior to the event, but created by the event and emerging with it. The event is a bifurcation, a disengagement from the law, norms and existing values. Unstable and unbalanced, its emergence opens up a process of subjectivation and its modalities of existence and action are still undetermined. The event and its date are points of reversal and diversion that knock off balance thousands of people, plunging them into a different situation that they have no preconception about. The event is an opening, a possibility of self transformation and, consequently, of changing the socio-political situation. A new universe is opened up and those who cross this threshold can engage in new relations, new modes of thinking and doing, new knowledge and affects.
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