Lawrence,
If I were you and had been lucky enough to write this intriguing text, I would email it (with a question) to Craig Ferguson (preferably via twitter) in hopes that he might read it to millions of viewers on The Late Late Show, broadcast on the major television network CBS in the states, but accessible all over the world. Many samples from the show available on youtube. He's presently the most brilliant talk show host in the US, despite his origins in Scotland, and censorship stands front and center as perhaps his major topoi. I watch his show virtually every night, trying to sort out what aspect might be thought of as performance art. My candidate: the appearances of Sid the Cussing Bunny from north London.
Barry
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:57:16 -0000, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Respect the censors, they know things which you do not.
>Censors are the fulcra of liberty.
>Only the dangerous leave their speech uncensored.
>Self-censorship enables the art of learning.
>Thought is the censor of activity.
>Teaching is wise censorship.
>Wise censorship is educative.
>Legal activity is the censor of destructive thought.
>He who keeps his peace keeps the peace.
>Denial is not rebuttal.
>A censor is average but not mean.
>Public figures need not be censored.
>The ship of state is censorship.
>Truth does not lie in a censored text.
>Censorship maintains complacency among the faithful.
>Excision brings precision.
>Does a sheep quibble over words?
>Does a hawk care what name its prey has?
>The dying do not tell the truth until they have despaired.
>Only the foolish think their words are free.
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>Lawrence Upton
>AHRC Creative Research Fellow
>Dept of Music
>Goldsmiths, University of London
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>Long interview from 1998
>http://lawrenceupton.org/data/InterviewCarolineAndrews.pdf
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