SAMUEL WEBERsports, with its regular and recurrent calendar celebrating and inculcating the logic of
winner take all, which is also the principle of the distinctively American model of the
democratic electoral process, which refuses the proportionality common in the rest of the
world. And in their place, a democracy reconsidered—reconsidering its ‘‘self ’’—could
leave room and time for a banal and unspectacularweek,in which one day makes way for
the next without seeking to impose itself as the first, last and only one—and yet which
remains once and for all.
To be sure, as Derrida remarks at the end ofRogues: ‘‘All that is not for tomorrow
[c’est pas demain la veille]’’ (114 / 161); more literally, ‘‘tomorrow is not the eve.’’ And
yet, like images in rear-view mirrors, that eve may be nearer than it appears and getting
closer all the time.
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