TY - ADVS
T1 - Kenan Malik: Pandaemonium
T2 - do i want people to shut up?
AU - Malik, Keenan
AU - Mondal, Ashuman
A2 - Clarkson, Garry
PY - 2014/12/5
Y1 - 2014/12/5
N2 - Photograph to contextualise a key debate on free speech and censorship. Keenan Malik's response to Anshuman Mondal, a lecturer in English at Brunel University, recently published an article on the academic website The Conversation criticising arguments for free speech. Advocates of free speech, of which Malik is a key specimen, were, Mondal claimed, trying to ‘shut up’ those who disagreed with them. Malik argues that this attenuates the right to protest to the point where it effectively becomes a dismissal of that right. That crying ‘censorship!’ makes the second of these invalid, hence the contradiction I identify in the first half of the article: the idea that free speech is threatened by free speech itself. Garry Clarkson’s photo of the burning of The Satanic Verses on a demonstration in Bradford, 1989 © Garry Clarkson.
AB - Photograph to contextualise a key debate on free speech and censorship. Keenan Malik's response to Anshuman Mondal, a lecturer in English at Brunel University, recently published an article on the academic website The Conversation criticising arguments for free speech. Advocates of free speech, of which Malik is a key specimen, were, Mondal claimed, trying to ‘shut up’ those who disagreed with them. Malik argues that this attenuates the right to protest to the point where it effectively becomes a dismissal of that right. That crying ‘censorship!’ makes the second of these invalid, hence the contradiction I identify in the first half of the article: the idea that free speech is threatened by free speech itself. Garry Clarkson’s photo of the burning of The Satanic Verses on a demonstration in Bradford, 1989 © Garry Clarkson.
UR - https://kenanmalik.wordpress.com/2014/12/05/do-i-want-people-to-shut-up/
UR - https://theconversation.com/who-is-censoring-who-when-artists-dismiss-their-critics-34093
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