Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression

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Robert Atkins, Svetlana Mintcheva
New Press, 2006 - Art - 353 pages

If your idea of censorship is an anonymous bureaucrat in a government office exercising prudish control over "offensive" art and speech, wake up and smell the conglomeration. Censorship today is just as likely to be the result of a market force or a bandwidth monopoly as a line edit or the covering of a nude sculpture, and the current system of new technologies and economic arrangements has subtle, built-in mechanisms for suppressing free expression as powerful as any known in other centuries.

In Censoring Culture, the nationally known author of the ArtSpeak books and the head of the National Coalition Against Censorship's Arts Program bring together the latest thinking from art historians, cultural theorists, legal scholars, and psychoanalysts, as well as first-person accounts by artists and advocates, to give us a comprehensive understanding of censorship in a new century.

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ECONOMICS
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The MilitaryIndustrial Complex Is Dead Long Live
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Private Censorship Corporate Power
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Copyright

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TitleCensoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression
G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
EditorsRobert Atkins, Svetlana Mintcheva
ContributorNational Coalition against Censorship (U.S.)
Editionillustrated, annotated
PublisherNew Press, 2006
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedJun 4, 2009
ISBN1595580972, 9781595580979
Length353 pages
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