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In Algerian Novel chapter 2 French philosopher MarieJosé Mondzain reinterprets Algerian Novel chapter 1 The films nested structure is a way to keep images and their symbolic load at a distance It opens a new space of negotiation wherein new associations can be shaped They function as a starting point for the writing of a history in movement and produce narratives which then become touchstones for a new kind of historicisation In the second part of this second chapter Mondzain analyses another visual material that of the rushes recorded during the shooting of the first chapter These rushes could have been left invisible or rather unseen the same way some of the Algerians historical figures are not represented on the pictures of the kiosk In her book Limage peutelle tuer Can the image kill Mondzain defines the unseen as what is waiting for meaning in the community debate The unseen would then be a sort of unexploited archive waiting for the gaze to expand