CENSORSHIP AND DISCOURSE: ATOMS, BITS, & BODIES
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5840/eps202461342Keywords:
censorship, power, peer review, resistance, mobilizationAbstract
Epistemic coercion is a problem – something we need to do as well as something we need to avoid or resist. Epistemic coercion is a superficial problem – in two senses: First: we, or “they,” cannot actually control discourse except by controlling speakers and writers, which means that nobody can actually be stopped from saying what they will up until the moment they are sanctioned or cancelled. Second, through epistemic coercion we control the surfaces and motions of bodies we discipline and mobilize. We can inscribe bodies but cannot conjure them into flesh from words alone – at least until our nanotechnologists can assemble atoms into life.
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