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What do YouTuber influencer videos about being ‘cancelled’ share with 17th-century texts? Both were crafted directly in response to audiences in new social spaces.
The brilliance of the new Netflix TV show, ‘Beef,’ which looks at loneliness and urban life, is threatened by the controversial history of one of its supporting actors, David Choe.
If the idea of “cancellation” as we know it today had been available to him, Wyndham Lewis would almost certainly have used it to describe the fallout from his Hitler book.
How fans attending Chris Brown’s sold out UK tour are referencing race in their arguments against the singer’s ‘cancellation’.
Three Ukranian authors, including Maria Tumarkin – who’s made a powerful statement – have withdrawn from Adelaide Writers Week after harsh criticism of the Ukranian president by a participating author.
The ability of professors to freely teach and write about controversial topics without fear of retribution is nothing new.
Calls have erupted to cancel two writers from Adelaide Writers’ Week – including from South Australia’s Opposition leader. Why? And are they justified? Denis Muller weighs the evidence.
Defenders of free speech are often the same people who seek to silence those they do not happen to agree with.
Considered a pioneer of “Black Studies à la française”, Ndiaye’s appointment comes at a time when issues in race and gender have divided the French political class and public opinion.
Many Black audiences are justifiably weary of works about their community told from white perspectives. But authorship isn’t always black and white.
As Western sanctions seek to isolate Russia, they also perversely reinforce the country’s mythic view of itself as a special place that outsiders want to destroy.
Religion has been a laughing matter since the middle ages.
Privileged people don’t get to unilaterally decide that their behaviour isn’t racist. Real change must involve more humility (I’m looking at you, Joe).
Society has moved to a place where everyone is held accountable if their jokes are found offensive.
Cancel culture is what is left when people who have caused harm fail to actively accept responsibility and work to repair that harm.
Bad laws, political tribalism and cancel culture – philosopher Arthur Prior was describing similar things in the 1950s, and his challenge is just as relevant today.
Cancel culture has exploded due to social media’s amplifying powers, society’s deep divisions and difficulties redressing longstanding inequities.
The public is much less extreme in its views than you’d suspect
Excommunicating a church member, like ‘canceling’ someone on social media, serves to cleanse the body politic of behavior deemed damaging, suggests a scholar of political theology.
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Deputy Director, Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law, Griffith University
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen
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Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Sociology, Brandon University
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Elia Scholar, PhD Student, York University, Canada
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Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia
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Professor, University of New England
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Associate Professor of Practical and Political Theologies, Starr King School for the Ministry
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Professor, Film & Screen Studies, Monash University
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Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
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Visiting professor at the Policy Institute, King's College London
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Associate Professor and Archivist, Boise State University
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Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, Newcastle University
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PhD candidate, Media and Communication, University of Leeds