Publikáció: cancel culture – cenzúra, vagy valami más?
Absztrakt
Kulcsszavak: művészet és politika, eltörlés/ canceling, média policy, közösségi média, cenzúra.
Abstract
My study explores cancel culture and canceling. Through case studies (the „fascism” of the London gallery LD50 and the Hungarian Burda’s „paedo- phile scandal”) I show how cancelling becomes or does not become a means of censorship. I try to explore who acts in these cases (who censors), and whom, what, i.e. what wider attitude structures, institutional relations and their rearrangements can be linked to cancelling. I conclude that in none of my case studies was there an attempt to censor or abolish a particular cultural product, or to prevent its presentation or distribution. My conclusions, limited by the methodology, are that cancellation is not an unfair tool of professional showdowns, but results from the politicisation of professions and their subsequent involvement in a broader hegem- onic reordering, on the one hand, and creates legitimacy on a moral register, on the other. Cancel cul- ture undermines whole professions and ultimately democracy itself.
Keywords: art and politics, canceling, media policy, social media, censorship.