A playful attempt to grapple with the growth of political anger among the young and the failure of a substantial left-wing vision to speak to this mixture of disillusionment and occasional hope. Marker searches for the grinning cat as he appears in graffiti around Paris, at protest marches, flash mobs and among the homeless. For Marker, the cat represents a spontaneous creativity, even art, that can arise as though willed from the streets.
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