In politically troubled times, it is also in the culture and strengthen its efforts to adopt a position. The year 2018 has underlined the need for militant confrontation, and how unclear some of the red line.
Art and culture to negotiate social developments. You refer to it in the past and in the future. You can expand the reality of it, disassemble and re-encode to put together, to the society to hold the mirror.
Art and culture remained in the history of a politically agitated environment has never been untouched. The year 2018 has once again highlighted how much the culture device under pressure in which the free democracies are at risk – in particular in its function as a counter-weight.
The victim and the perpetrator: Asia Argento
Culture under the control of the state
In the US, President Donald Trump journalists ban the word; in Poland, critical of the government culture is pushing the end out of their positions, to occupy them with genehmeren people; the Hungarian press is trimmed to the government line; in Russia, President Vladimir Putin of the year, announced at the end of to make rap music under state control.
Who wealth, the mere power of large Internet corporations alone, the skeptical eye, winces, probably only legal in the scenario outlined, the cooperation of these companies with the policy. What’s more, if platforms such as Facebook government critics to serve as a gateway to the world, but their censorship and persecution? The boundaries between freedom and censorship on the social network are fluent, showed to 2018, the ongoing deletion of images, on which works of art with Naked pictured.
Connected by friendship in the fight against culture and the media: the President of Trump and Putin
Fast pace intensifying discourses
Add to that a media operation to slow down the fast pace of the social discourses, rather, comes to a head as you. This is what happened, as in the #MeToo-debate came out that Asia Argento, to date, the leading protagonist of the movement, have harassed years ago a young person sexually, and later hush money paid.
Prompt the statements were Argento’s, she had been abused by film Mogul Harvey Weinstein, miss, in doubt. Only two pages showed the same coin: Only because the is a right, the other wrong.
Intensification and simplification – it does not look like in 2019 would be a quieter year. The culture must avoid the threats. Our culture sensations of the year 2018 you will find in our picture gallery.