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Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad - Free Speech and Neoliberalism, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Free Speech and Neoliberalism

Art, Culture, Education

Av Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad

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Beskrivning
In this book, Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad challenges us to reconceptualize the notion of free speech. Focusing on the domains of cultural production, aesthetics, and education, Grønstad contends that neoliberalism currently poses the greatest threat to our freedom of expression.Crucially, the book argues that freedom of speech should no longer be considered merely as parrhesia–understood as the license to offend–but also as isegoria, the equal right to speak. The latter denotes the original meaning of free speech, Grønstad posits, and should be restored as the conceptual ambit of the term, despite being largely overlooked after Greek Antiquity. Grønstad examines a variety of texts across formats including Fahrenheit 451, Alphaville (1965), Severance, the performance art of Jingyi Wang, and the films of Yorgos Lanthimos to conduct a multi-faceted engagement with cultural works and discourses spanning both genre and historical period that grapple with issues of free speech, censorship, and neoliberal politics. Ultimately, these analyses highlight how art and aesthetics represent a particular case of isegoria, and more broadly, how neoliberal rationality operates to delimit the space of the sayable and the expressible.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-05-14
  • Mått: 158 x 232 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 500 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 248
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • ISBN: 9798765167823
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Asbjørn Grønstad is Professor in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway.

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Free speech is never free. It always comes at a cost, and someone always has to pay. In our late neoliberal era, that someone is usually us. In Free Speech and Neoliberalism: Art, Culture, Education, Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad argues that because of ‘the shrinking of the horizon of the sayable within neoliberal culture’, there is a pressing need to reconceptualize our notion of freedom of speech. He is right. Against the censorial imagination, for Grønstad there is hope in art and culture, and especially hope in reviving and nurturing the practice of parrhesia (the license to offend as a courageous speaking truth to power) but even more so and necessarily in the principle of isegoria (the equal right to speak). To this end, Grønstad mobilizes Alphaville, Fahrenheit 45I, the performance art of Jingyi Wang, the TV series Severance, and the films of Yorgos Lanthimos as articulations of isegoria. For him, they offer profound ethical, epistemological, and political potentialities. More than this, isegoria offers an antidote to our waning faith of higher education’s commitment to critical thinking, judiciousness, and education; and perhaps even to the demise of democracy itself! We can only hope…

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