Political repression forced publishers to accept personal criminal liability

Evidence

What would become Metis was originally set up in 1983 by Müge Gürsoy Sökmen, Verso’s ‘agent’ in Turkey, together with a few Leftist friends. In order to avoid the risk of having the whole staff arrested, Metis was registered legally under the name of a single individual, who would serve any prison time meted out by the regime. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 796

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the scaffolding theme of how state power shapes the conditions of intellectual transmission — relevant to the field’s claims about knowledge production under constraint. — connects to: A literary digression can smuggle in a covert political apology; Incorrect legal citations can trigger sanctions and undermine credibility — Bryan A. Garner, Jeff Newman, Tiger Jackson, The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style,…, 226; State censorship produces small private gestures of rebellion

Broader Connections

• State censorship produces small private gestures of rebellion #expands (0.80)
• A literary digression can smuggle in a covert political apology #expands (0.78)
• Incorrect legal citations can trigger sanctions and undermine credibility #expands (0.72) — Bryan A. Garner, Jeff Newman, Tiger Jackson, The Redbook, 226