Cuvântul „cenzură” rostit de democrați

Authors

  • Liviu Malița Faculty of Theatre and Film, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37130/n6h54325

Keywords:

censorship, totalitarian regime, democracy

Abstract

The article aims at reflecting on multiple and extremely diverse methods of censorship, regarding specific links between various systems of power and their concrete types of implementing narratives of limiting freedom of expression.

The article proposes a broad analysis of the lexical significances of the word ”censorship”, exploring the span between lato sensu and stricto sensu and identifying visible or more hidden representions of interdictions and their iminent contradictions. The semantic relaxation of the word, its frequent use in weak contexts might diminish its powerful meaning and inflict confusions. A lax and too permissive definition contains both conceptual and pragmatical risks. At the same time, the reason we should not accept a restrictive meaning is that it might overshadow more subtle types of censorship.

From the censorship considered specific to totalitarian regimes to the censorship resorting to more invisible ways of domination, specific to various democracies, the article questions relevant fields of structural or fluid restrictions. Does censorship exist in nowadays democracies? What kind of censorship do we live these days?

Author Biography

  • Liviu Malița, Faculty of Theatre and Film, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Liviu Malița is Senior Researcher and Professor of Aesthetics, Literary and Performative studies at Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He is the Dean of the Faculty of Theatre and Film. His research interests are at the intersection of various fields: Romanian and European theatre and literature; sociology, theory of art; aesthetics, history of ideas and mentalities. His scholarly contributions aims, on the one hand, to reinterpret the modernity of the interwar Romanian culture and the inherent tensions between traditionalism and Europeanism, and, on the other hand, to analyze the impact of the communist totalitarian ideology upon the Romanian postwar cultural institutions and artistic movements. Liviu Malița published widely, both in Romanian and English, studies on Romanian modernity seen as a confrontation between nationalism and regionalism, between North and South, between the French and the German cultural models; articles and monographs on Romanian art in the communist period with a specific focus on the phenomenon of censorship; critical history of the 20th-century aesthetics concepts, numerous essays tracing the social engagement of the artist in a postmodern and postideological context (Situationism, Interventionism, Artivism). Liviu Malița coordinated a national research group on film, performative and visual studies and published, in 2020 at Polirom, Encyclopedia of Imaginaries from Romania. Volume 5: Imaginary and Artistic Heritage.

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Published

2021-06-10

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 1 (2021): Art, Culture and Censorship

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Malița, L. (2021). Cuvântul „cenzură” rostit de democrați. CONCEPT, 22(1), 3-27. https://doi.org/10.37130/n6h54325