But for this we would have to be able to see the revolt of the banlieues, beyond the sign or political symptom it supplies for those observing from the national space or outside, as a moment (however fragile, uncertain, reversible) of the unfolding of a political process (or, as one nowsays philosophically, a ‘political subjectivation’) that belongs to the consciousness and action of those who are its bearers.
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