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The Tracery of Incarnation\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span>by <\/span><\/span>\u00c9ric Laurent<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

From LQ 96 \u2013 22.11.11. \u2013 Translated by Yannis Grammatopoulos, Anna Pigkou, Dimitris Alexakis<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s autumn. It will soon be winter. And here we are again in Tahrir Square. Twenty-eight people have died during three days of conflicts on the streets leading to the Ministry of the Interior. Calls for a \u201cMillion Man March\u201d, as happened once in the National Mall in Washington, can be heard. Who is in charge of those calls? No one exactly knows. It is said that it\u2019s \u201cthe activists\u201d. Yesterday, we saw an interview of an active protester, a courageous \u201cshebab\u201d who had trained as leader of football supporters. He seems to be supporting a fight for the sake of it, against the police, in the spirit of the Paris Saint-Germain football club of yonder. A \u201cblogger and activist\u201d who lives in France, denounces the crimes that have occurred in the name of the Military Council, on radio France-culture this morning. Another peculiar \u201cnaked blogger\u201d demands a determined feminism. Tahrir Square protesters are suffocated and shot directly in the eyes. We deplore the blinded bloggers. Who are they? We remember it was also an \u201cactivist blogger\u201d who called for an attack on the Israeli embassy. Other activist bloggers appear in English-speaking Al-Jazeera, which takes up its continuous commentary on the events again. They are not the same as those of the spring. Heroes of that era didn\u2019t last. Could the ephemeral be a result of technology?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Already on October 31st<\/sup> Robert Worth highlighted in the New York Times that the protesters of the Arab spring had not produced a great voice. He wondered whether in those movements \u201cthe role of the intellectual can be reduced to the micro-blogger or organiser of the streets\u201d. Are we indeed in a meta-ideological era where there is no need for intellectual figures that unify, or heroes? The phenomenon appears more complicated, as if in a type of paralysis of the eventual leaders.\u00a0 The moment a Council is formed in Syria, Libya or Egypt, everything occurs as if Syrian law was applicable. \u201cNo one wants to be accused of abducting the revolution\u201d, the Syrian philosopher and Human Rights defender Sadik Jalal al-Azm says. On the website of L\u2019Express, Bernard-Henri L\u00e9vy, after replying to questions by internet users, answered the questions of Christophe Barbier. He points out the difficulties of the National Transitional Council (NTC) of Libya in finding a voice that could really carry. He evokes a \u201cdeficit of incarnation\u201d and wonders whether this does not respond to the \u201cexcessive incarnation\u201d that used to be the foundation of the position of authoritarian tyrants, especially Gaddafi. Could this be a kind of preventive vaccination of the movement against any cumbersome leader? This would free this area for the openly Islamic parties whose candidates take honour in effacing themselves before God. The others, Bacher el Assad, Mubarak, Ben Ali, less extravagant tyrants, fantasmatically also weigh heavy. The activists of Tahrir Square say it clearly: only the muslim brothers will vote next week, because the activists don\u2019t vote for a candidate, for a name. They vote for God. Protesters who were present in Tahrir Square accommodate Mohammed el Baradei or \u201cany honest civilian\u201d. We see that \u201cany\u201d is a diffuse fantasy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If we consider the attraction of the Turkish model to overcome the group paralyses that came out of the Arab spring, we realize it regards a social conservatism totally focused around a man, Tayyip Erdogan, who increasingly reveals his solitary taste for authority. During his clash with the military, he managed to use his charisma with no scruple. Do the spring Arabs wait for their Erdogan and his \u201celectoral authoritarianism\u201d?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps we could generalise the \u201cdeficit of incarnation\u201d that appeared in the Arab uprisings and question ourselves on the difficulties of government as such, through the different political systems. America, the great democracy, whether exceptional or not, is paralysed. In France the affirmation of leadership of the opposition candidate is not so easy. In Europe the syndrome is repeated in general. Nanni Moretti extended it to the Church by his \u201cHabemus Papam\u201d. The desire to occupy the position of exception, the one in charge in the last instance of the act, doesn\u2019t seem to be running in the streets. Could this be a generalised vaccination against the desire to occupy the position of the One of the exception? Could the democratic passion have come in at the end of the \u201cpassion for power\u201d? Is this a kind of vaccination against the popular leaders of the 30\u2019s? Bernard-Henri L\u00e9vy in his book writes about the \u201cleukemia of memory, the great disease of today\u201d. Could this retreat from ultimate responsibility be like a paradoxical memory: mainly so that this won\u2019t start again? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Faced with this lameness of the desire of the elected, it is even more surprising, as BHL shows in this context, in what \u201cthe desire of the one alone, without a representative mandate\u201d can produce, according to the expression by Jacques-Alain Miller. BHL managed to put into action what he himself defines as \u201cthe advantage of not depending on anyone, on no group, on no mission (and therefore gain time)\u201d. Couldn\u2019t we regard the various symptoms of the democratic bureaucracies as aspects of the same truth? On the one side, the elected politicians can\u2019t but state their impotence (Belgium). On the other, the technocrats that were trained by Goldman Sachs take administration directly in hand, short-circuiting the political system (Italy, Greece, and soon, Spain). The question persists and on this point Latin America found a solution different to Europe. Its great democracies had at their top leaders who assumed their function (Lula, Kirchner). They have both retired and it is now up to two women to incarnate that function of desire in action, without which politics dies. It seems that Cristina succeeds better in this place than Dilma. In Europe, BHL\u2019s dasein resonates in the time because it moves the impasse of the tracery of Incarnation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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