...Emily Ng Abstract The history of modern China has been filled with loss in many senses. From certain angles of vision, loss, remembrance, and forgetting orbit around figures of political repression in the People’s Republic (PRC), particularly that of censorship. These approaches posit a link...

... trajectories for critique in an effort to oppose censorship, the criminalization of knowledge, and the destruction of both academic freedom and the politics of dissent. Focusing on recent attacks on gender studies, the essay argues that new alliances must be forged on a transnational model to support academic...

... space. It took me around seven years. Insecure writing some sections, exultant writing others, I advanced little by little, because it turned out to be so difficult for me. I was writing a novel under dictatorship. I knew perfectly well that in those years there was an office of censorship. Every...

... into the commemoration of the Paris protests in 1968 as commodified cultural memory. After many years of censorship and denial, the French government only acknowledged the events in 1998, without yet expressing condemnation of the police or taking political responsibility. The French national authorities' continued lack...

... of the approach in Freudian psychoanalysis to the psychical structure, not only since the vocabulary that Said employs borrows from the Freudian lexicon (the language of the censor, censorship, submission, displacement, repulsion, appropriation, and so on) but also because Said's conception of mind, understood...

... the Pinochet regime through an infrastructure of fear that emptied out the commons, through censorship and curfew. Rosenfeld's was an interruption of political, social, economic, and symbolic flows. This seemingly minor alteration of a traffic sign became the core of her artistic language for the decades...

... in Bulgaria in the 1980s, which arose as an alternative to the censorship exercised by the Communist regime. I want to spend a bit of time on the Seminar as analyzed by one of its participants, the Bulgarian philosopher and poet Miglena Nikolchina. She describes it as a place of dialogue only, since...

... surveillance and censorship, who are subjected to harassment by governments and sectarian political groups, or have been dismissed from their position in the academy and have been banned from teaching and expressing themselves. Turkey and India are two paradigmatic cases in this current context, among many...

... cartoons for their caricature of Muḥammad, did it follow that she supported censorship and restrictions on free speech? In the case of the secular state, she sought to point out that political states that define themselves as secular often actively engage in distinguishing public from private religions...

...-based oppression, and the informal censorship of the media in post-1998 Reformasi Indonesia. Against this backdrop, we located a new political challenge that required us as a collective to practice thinking and living together in a sustainable way. On reflection, it seems more apt to refer to the school...

... this distress distress us, since it increases our pleasures?’” 5 This refunctioning of the Diwan should make one wary of Said's hasty conclusion that the citation operates as a kind of lexicographical censorship device, tamping down Marx's human sympathies for the Indian victims of empire...

... of censorship and self-censorship are felt most acutely in the public sphere, with many media outlets closed down and over 170 journalists currently in prison. The extension of purges into the domain of civil society has meant the detention of many prominent public figures, including community leaders, trade...

... in the superego's arsenal for internal restraint and a source of moral judgment about society. As repressive desublimation offers a reprieve from this strict censorship and gives rise to “happy consciousness” (a less divided self because a less conscientiously repressed one), conscience is the first casualty...

..., Sucesos sensacionales rose to popularity because, in the words of Olga López Betancur, it dramatized and made public what censorship tried to keep out of the public view. 25 Peasants, workers, criminals, prostitutes, transvestites, and homosexuals, writes López Betancur, find in Sucesos...

... and political militants, rampant censorship, and nefarious instantiations of institutional violence all coexist. 2 Both the new mass media programming, ever more saturated and deregulated, and the interventions by numerous officials in the current government—including ministers and even the president...

... not originate from this accident, or from his drug addiction: instead, it is rooted in homosexuality. This is what turns Lee, Burroughs's doppelgänger, into an outlaw and a traitor who cannot be incorporated into the organizations that seek to control his mind. The censorship that descended on these two...

... of speech, or censorship through political correctness. Thus, though in a milder discursive register, we see here the same identification with the plight of the dispossessed phantom-owner, deprived of the basic categories that would allow for self-expression. In desperate need of restoring their domains...

... appearance of those who have nothing, an appearance that is situated at the limit of doxa due to their inimitable exclusion and censorship; and the second (which must in fact take logical priority) is what we (what I, at least, from a black perspective) would have to call the necessary possibility...