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Thursday, January 18th, 2007Κούφια λόγια ενός ετοιμοθάνατου κατεστημένου που δικαίως (από τη μεριά του) δυσαρεστείται με το ότι χάνει το μονοπώλιο της αυθεντίας (στη γλώσσα, τις αξίες, την αισθητική, την ενημέρωση, τη διανόηση).
Και δεν είναι βέβαια η πρώτη φορά:
It took the Catholic Church seventy-five years to orchestrate its censorship policies to
accommodate the new technological and political realities. At first, the printing press was
perceived as a useful tool for the church to promulgate its doctrine, and limited steps
were taken to address the transformations. However, as the church began to perceive the
potential and practical threat to its unifying myths and view its undermining constructed
legitimacy, church authorities gradually escalated their intervention and censorship. The
initial regulatory measures were not adequate to contain the spread and influence of
printed books.In 1479, Pope Sixtus IV authorized the University of Cologne to use ecclesiastical
censures against printers, purchasers, and readers of heretical books. The focus was
directed at suppressing heretical writing (Grendler 1977: 71; Steinberg 1959: 186). In
1487, Pope Innocent III, published a bull that decreed excommunication, fines, and book
burning as a punishment for those dealing with heretical books. In 1501 Pope Alexander
VI issued an additional bull, authorizing universal censorship with the goal of
homogenizing censorship throughout Christendom. By that time the Roman Church was
“shaken to its foundations by the Protestant Reformation, and alarmed at the increasing
power which the secular state arrogated to itself” (Ibid: 186-187). This decree was written
in the traditional form of guidelines, which were general, vague, and not efficient in
preventing the circulation of books disapproved by the Church (Grendler 1977: 71).In 1515, the Catholic Church, viewing the rapid dissemination of heretical books
and Protestant ideas, which threatened to undermine their authority, reached the
conclusion that more drastic measures should be taken to detain and contain the danger.
At that time it was already clear that “[it was] the Church whose authority and existence
had been assailed and the contest was fought out over creeds and not political platform”
(Putnam 1906: 9). In this year, Pope Leo X issued a bull forbidding the printing of any
book without the Church’s authorization (Febvre and Martin 1976: 244). [*]
Δείτε επίσης τα ωραία που έχει να πει η Ιλουμινάτα Πιγκουίνα (απ’ όπου και η είδηση)
ΥΓ: Πάντως η κ. Αρβελέρ λέει αρκετά σωστά. Food for thought είναι το μεγαλύτερο μέρος της ομιλίας της και σαφέστατα -σε αντίθεση π.χ. με τον μέσο ελληνόφωνο κουλτουριάρη επιφυλλιδογράφο- έχει μια ψιλοϊδέα για (και μια ψιλοεπαφή με) τα φαινόμενα που κριτικάρει και δεν περιορίζεται σε εκθεσάδικου επιπέδου αφορισμούς του τύπου “τι απέγινε εκείνη η εποχή που οι καρδιές των ανθρώπων ήταν πιο κοντά από τις στέγες τους”.
[*] Z Kertcher, AN Margalit, “Technology and Authority in Times of Transformation” (εδώ)
