ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the artworks made within periods of relative peace, both in the immediate post-dictatorship period, when State denial and policies of 'reconciliation' sought to erase past, and in later periods when new administrations have embraced the importance of addressing the past, through prosecutions and memorial projects. Here the risk of truth speaking is lesser, perhaps, but critique and challenge of how to practise one's freedom is not of course confined to any one State formation. Ferrari's critical work continues, not only because 'post-dictatorship' does not mean that all diagrams of power have assumed new lines but also because the need for difficult work at and on the interstices of social normativity and ethical subjectivity of course remains. The Greeks problematised their freedom as ethical problem ethos was way of being and behaviour. The sense of critique as virtue was articulated through his reading of the ancient 'techniques of self' as stylisations of self, imbued with ethical concern.
