To exit is to refuse the terms. Exits mark radical openings engendered by departures and refusals: imaginative breakouts that make certainties scatter as other worlds flicker, intermittently, into possibility. An exit question is the question that shatters the questionnaire and the inquiry that burns down the survey— when prescribed answers dissolve and unauthorized questions surge forward, remaking the very ground of what can be called into question.
In the interstices of a knowledge economy that transforms every idea into extractable resource and reduces every practice of study to an individual investment in expectation of future returns, exit questions elaborate a praxis of interrogation out of bounds, pushing the imagination over its own guardrails and institutional forms of oversight in order give to what prompts us to ask questions the power to make us think, to throw our own worlds into question.
This programme, running across ICCT activities, is devoted to exploring exit questions as audacious praxis, as tools for liberating thought from the machinery of hollow interrogation that closes off every departure or deviation. At a time when ready-made questions proliferate and we’re told the only thing that matters is coming up with the right answer, this programme moves with the restless sociality of questioning itself. It is an invitation to gather around shared interrogations and to experiment with unsanctioned reverberations across domains.
