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  • OmegaMouse@pawb.socialtoBooks@lemmy.ml•Archival in a Fascist regime
    17·
    11 days ago

    It seems that the material destroyed at the Institute for Sexual Science is precisely the sort of stuff that the Trump regime wishes to supress. So any LGBT research and information.

    Basically anything that the Nazis banned. The list here still seems relevant. Transpose ‘German’ for ‘American’:

    spoiler

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings#The_burnings_start

    All of these types of literature, as described by the Nazis, were to be banned:

    • The works of traitors, emigrants and authors from foreign countries who believe they can attack and denigrate the new Germany (H. G. Wells, Romain Rolland);
    • The literature of Marxism, Communism and Bolshevism;
    • Pacifist literature;
    • Literature with liberal, democratic tendencies and attitudes, and writings supporting the Weimar Republic (Walther Rathenau, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann);
    • All historical writings whose purpose is to denigrate the origin, the spirit and the culture of the German Volk, or to dissolve the racial and structural order of the Volk, or that denies the force and importance of leading historical figures in favor of egalitarianism and the masses, and which seeks to drag them through the mud (Emil Ludwig); Books that advocate “art” which is decadent, bloodless, or purely constructivist (George Grosz, Otto Dix, Bauhaus, Felix Mendelssohn);
    • Writings on sexuality and sexual education which serve the egocentric pleasure of the individual and thus, completely destroy the principles of race and Volk (Magnus Hirschfeld);
    • The decadent, destructive and Volk-damaging writings of “Asphalt and Civilization” literati: (Oskar Maria Graf, Heinrich Mann, Stefan Zweig, Jakob Wassermann, Franz Blei);
    • Literature by Jewish authors, regardless of the field;
    • Popular entertainment literature that depicts life and life’s goals in a superficial, unrealistic and sickly sweet manner, based on a bourgeois or upper class view of life;
    • Patriotic kitsch in literature.
    • Pornography and explicit literature
    • All books degrading German purity.

    I guess books that have been banned in US school libraries over the last few years too.

    And finally, any political material that is antithetical to the far right.

  • OmegaMouse@pawb.socialtoBooks@lemmy.ml•The Slow Cancellation of Online Libraries
    2·
    20 days ago

    Thanks for clarifying. Free access to academic information for all is a worthy goal.

    One would hope that organisations hosting digital libraries of academic journals would hold those in perpetuity. But often the subscriptions are exploitatively expensive, and I’m of the opinion that such information should be made available for free. In any case, having private libraries as a backup is certainly a good idea for a variety of reasons.

    The same goes for preserving the volumes of data that will inevitably be quietly binned and forgotten to save server space.

  • OmegaMouse@pawb.socialtoBooks@lemmy.ml•The Slow Cancellation of Online Libraries
    10·
    20 days ago

    I’ve read through the article, but I’m somewhat uncertain as to what particular texts the author is hoping to preserve. Mainly academic journals? Or is it just referring to any texts available online (the article does make reference to artistic works that can’t be ‘reinvented’)?

    It probably doesn’t help that I’m unfamiliar with a lot of the projects mentioned here.