The article approaches the events and protagonists of the October 2019 revolt in Santiago de Chile. From the perspective of City Studies and civil disobedience movements, it asks about the resurgence of the ágora, and how this type of conflict entails a political productivity for the city. In addition, it looks at the currents and properties that characterize this type of social movements, the spatial references and the moral acts that configure an experience of cité, of citizenship, unprecedented since the return to democracy in 1990.