Fabio Macioce
Biography
LUMSA University
Publications
Humiliation by Design: The Legal Aesthetics of MarginalisationIn liberal democracies, we are often told that law is blind to appearance. Yet, the opposite is often true. Public law and policy repeatedly mobilise aesthetic categories—such as decorum, decency, and ugliness—to judge who belongs in public spaces and who should be kept out of sight. These legal deployments of aesthetic norms are not just discretionary or symbolic: they form part of a broader system of exclusion, oppression, and privilege that targets certain groups as unfit to be seen. This is what I call aesthetic humiliation.