 In the Inhuman, Lyotard thinks the event not through the phrase “What is happening”, which presumes that all one has to do is await a form of information, as one does when watching television news. Rather the event arrives, as suggested above, through a questioning, specifically the question “is it happening” (“arrive-t-il?”), which opens up the possibility that “nothing might happen” (Inhuman, 92). This is the terror and pleasure found in Immanuel Kant’s (1724–1804) account of the sublime in The Critique of Judgment (1790), wherein one experiences a feeling that explodes one’s capacities for imagination and causes both pleasure and displeasure at once (Inhuman, 85). This, for Lyotard, is at the heart of all creation, which comes with the 