Neoliberalism and Free Speech: Art, Culture, and Education

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In this book, Asbjrn Grnstad challenges us to reconceptualize the notion of free speech. Focusing on the domains of cultural production, aesthetics, and education, Grnstad argues that neoliberalism currently poses the greatest threat to our freedom of expression.

Through multi-faceted engagement with artistic works spanning genre and time period and with complex discourses around free speech and censorship, this book demonstrates how neoliberal rationality operates to delimit the space of the sayable and the expressable. Ultimately, Grnstad posits that freedom of speech can no longer be considered only as parrhesia the license to offend but also as the originally-intended isegoria the equal right to speak. Suggesting that aesthetics represents a particular case of isegoria, the book engages with artistic, theatrical, literary, cinematic, and televisual works that variously grapple with issues of censorship and neoliberal politics.

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Asbjrn Grnstad is Professor in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway.