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"Riots remind us that the basic unit of politics is not representation, as our bourgeois rulers have insisted, but regicide - as they themselves learned from historical experience! And though riots are far from being the ideal form for effective form for sovereign contestation (and though they tend to announce their doom from the outset), they remain felicitous in the short term on account of their availability."