I plan to add more content as time allows. This is a good start and a good reminder to me to add this to my reading list!
Ran into Anna Thomas at Selah Tea recently; we discussed "critical thinking", particularly in regard to her Ph.D. thesis. This is not a quick read, but it is certainly worth your time. There isn't enough critical thinking going on these days. Her thesis gives us a roadmap for how to apply it to whatever our interests may be (fascism here at home or artificial intelligence claims, for example). Here is an excerpt:
As counterculture authors steadily gained readership and notoriety in the U.S. during the sixties, their works also represented potential best-sellers in Spain, and attracted significant interest from Spanish publishers in the last decade of the Franco dictatorship. Yet, the inherently subversive nature of the original works, which had already begun to generate controversy in U.S. communities, meant that counterculture publications also presented glaring targets for Francoist censorship, even as the regime's controls were beginning to shift in the late sixties in response to national and international demands for greater freedom of expression. Thus, in examining the translation and censorship of U.S. counterculture authors in Franco's Spain, this PhD Dissertation ultimately sets out to navigate the crosscurrents of rising dissidence, expanding cultures and growing literary markets against active mechanisms of cultural repression, manipulation and control—as made visible through a provocative body of translated, partially-translated and untranslated texts.