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Censorship Now!!

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An uproarious new essay collection from Washington, DC's, infamous cult music hero and satirist.

"While putting a copy of this book on your nightstand would be a sign of good taste, who cares about good taste? Are you willing to be seen reading a book titled Censorship Now!! in public? If so, your skin might burn with funny glances from squares, scolds and looky-loos. But on the inside, you'll feel your brain throbbing as it swells to accommodate some hilarious, absurd, and radical new strategies on how to live in our ridiculous world." —Washington Post

"Svenonius' new book is Censorship Now!!, and the title alone shows just how provocative the author can be. A collection of essays previously published by Vice, Jacobin, and others, it sets up numerous enemies—both real and straw—for Svenonius to knock down. . . . It's all couched in a style that's part anarchist tirade, part postmodern critique, and part punk-rock snottiness—yet it's addictively ridiculous." —NPR

Ian F. Svenonius's new collection of sixteen essays and stories, titled Censorship Now!!, is reorganizing people's ideas about censorship, Ikea, documentary filmmaking, the Berlin Wall, the film Heathers, the twist, the frug, the mashed potato, shaving one's body, Apple, Inc., Nordic functionalism, the supposed benevolence of Wikipedia, hoarding, college rock, the origins of the internet, and more. It's an underground smash which has been met with a horrified gasp in all respectable quarters and gog-eyed enthusiasm in artist garrets the world over.

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    • Kirkus

      September 15, 2015
      Rant 'n' roll from D.C. musician/writer/broadcaster Svenonius (Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock 'n' Roll Group, 2013, etc.), who's not at all happy with the world as it is. The author might (or might not) balk at the term, but there's a certain Leninist streak in this screed: if the right-wing media is going to blast out its bilge, if Hollywood is going to churn out "imperialist apologia," and artists continue with their head-in-the-sand escapism, well, then it's time to start censoring them-and to hell with the First Amendment and its guarantees of self-expression, which "is a parlor trick, designed by the lords of capital, with extraordinary, insidious implications." Svenonius doesn't seem to be saying that it's not cool to shout fire in a crowded Haymarket Square but instead that anything that doesn't accommodate his idea of resistance is suspect-unless it can be explained by anomie, in which case the sort of bilious trolling seen in Facebook comments is OK, since it's simply misguided resistance of a false-consciousness ilk. Sans-culotte fervor is all to the good, though this collection of scattered observations might come with a trigger warning for fans of the Grateful Dead and similar rock bands, responsible for the banishment of dancing from concerts by musicians "who insisted that their audiences sit obediently and consume drugs en masse whilst trapped in enormous arenas, raceways, pastures, and superdomes." Throughout the book, the author delivers a healthy dose of NPR-is-a-cultural-imperialist and Wikipedia-is-the-antichrist sort of stuff. In advancing such theories, Svenonius gets off a lot of nice slogans and apothegms ("For the Beatles, perhaps sex and death are intertwined, as in so many of the world's religions"), but it doesn't go much further than that on the logical-development, sustained-argument front. For the author's fans and disaffected teenagers of vaguely leftist impulses.

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