2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Power and the Unacceptable
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The unacceptable is a grey zone. We are used to identifying the unacceptable with what is proscribed, forbidden, censored and banned. Yet this implies a juridical model of power as command and repression and a ‘police’ complex to secure and enforce the ban. What is unacceptable often finds itself under the ban, such as a film rejected by a censorship board. On many occasions, however, the unacceptable falls short of what essentially is a juridical-theological model.