So there is something in common between the prose poem of the refined writer and that new form of art that tries to create new forms of social bonds in the ‘bad’ neighbourhoods. Each of them presents us one face of a common paradox: the ‘social crisis’ and its possible solution are the background of the apparently apolitical poem about the unattainable lady. Conversely the intervention of a form of art devoted to the construction of empty places seems needed by the underdogs of the poor suburbs. How can we spell out the enigmatic link between those two forms of art? In order to pose the problem, I shall borrow my third ‘proposition’ from a philosophical work which is itself the product of a separated community, since I borrow it from Deleuze and Guattari’s book What is Philosophy? From the section on art, I quote a paragraph which is at the same time a definition of what the artist does and a statement on the political import of art: