ABSTRACT
This chapter explores ways which can encourage, but never guarantee, the opening of spaces of appearance in and through which new subjectivities can emerge. Such subjectivities have the potential to disrupt existing dominant static and separate understandings of the world and rational autonomous framings of the subject and contribute to inaugurating new ways of knowing, being and acting in the world. To encourage the opening of such spaces the chapter draws on the ideas of Arendt, particularly her concept of ‘visiting’. The chapter engages with Andreotti’s HEADS UP model to explore ways to challenge the hegemonic processes which can hinder ‘visiting’. It also considers various European thinkers, including Mouffe on agonistic pluralism, Rancière on dissensus and ‘stultification’ in education and Masschelein and Simons on education as Skholé. Reading these authors alongside Arendt could be considered controversial, especially since Mouffe and Rancière openly criticise Arendt’s work. However, drawing on Dikeç, the chapter argues such an endeavour is worthwhile since it brings together ways to think about the possibility of sustainable and democratic education which are both ‘ruptural and inaugurative’. The chapter makes links to Osberg’s ‘symbiotic anticipation’ and the opening of spaces for radical futures as yet unimagined and unimaginable.
