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2007

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Tactics Against Fear - Creativity As Catharsis Exhibition, Friederike Krishnabhakdi-Vasilakis Jan 2007

Tactics Against Fear - Creativity As Catharsis Exhibition, Friederike Krishnabhakdi-Vasilakis

Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

Over the past six years, following the events of 9/11 in 2001, western society has undergone significant political, legal and social changes. The notion of terror - in action, word and image, has institutionalized fear on several levels: the emotional, the social and the political. Fear, it seems, justifies varying degrees of administrative arbitrariness, which as long as there is a commonly acknowledged denominator like terrorism, public opinion (when informed by fear rather than knowledge) can be swayed to overlook politicised abuse of the law. The protection of law from arbitrariness and from fear that makes arbitrariness possible, then, is …