I am tracing a cultural object which has been censored in multiple media forms. This object has passed through witing, print, film, and now exists online. In each of these forms, it has encountered different conditions of censorship. I want to find out what changes in those conditions, and why. This will include an examination of the works’ internal contents, as well as of their external contexts. I hope to show that there are uses and effects of censored works which can change the very conditions of censorship in which they are proscribed.
(i am leaning towards Bunuel’s Los Olvidados, into Guyotat’s Tomb for 500,000 soldiers, and then examining how to distribute a remix of those objects online, through various network forms (eg P2P networks, hash caches, mainstream retailers…)