Exit pedagogy

John Baldacchino

pp. 175-192

in: John Baldacchino (ed), Art's way out, Rotterdam, SensePublishers, 2012

Abstract

I want to conclude this book by contesting the relative safety of a democratic and free polis whose forms of representation, though appearing benign, are invariably characterized by the politics of fear and cultural fascistization. More specifically I want to speak of a polis that does away with its walls; where instead of a space that keeps out the barbarians (whoever "they" are), the culture of fascistic comfort is radically challenged.