Against the Erasure Machine: Scholasticide, Memory and the Power of Pedagogy

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
– Milan Kundera

In an age where culture is the primary battlefield, authoritarianism thrives on ignorance, historical amnesia and the brutal aesthetics of cruelty, all normalized as common sense. This is a policy of scholasticide – a full-scale assault on the past – one that aims to erase not only history but the very capacity to critically engage with it. We witness this in Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza...