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The following is taken directly from the blog Language in the Vicinity of Things :"Meanwhile, here are two images from a blog by an Iranian artist, who shall remain nameless for safety reasons. (The blog, written under a pseudonym, is at https://un.poivron.org/~tasche/). The (first) one is a photoshopped version of a photo this same artist had posted earlier. Subtitled "Waking up to a bad dream," it shows a woman holding up a folder newspaper; the visible part of its front page - both text and images - has been largely blacked out. The original image, posted on June 13 with its front page still visible, was titled "Mahmoud is gone." Since I don't read Farsi, I cannot be sure of the contents of this page, but the title suggests that it might be a paper which, on the basis of the on election day reports about Moussavi's victory, later revoked, still suggested that Moussavi had won. In any case, this blackout functions as a mute indictment of the patent mockery into which the political-theological hardliners and their paramilitary stooges - or is the other way around? - have turned these elections."
Perhaps this Black Label study made some months back is appropriate here. (bL)
Continue from Language in the Vicinity of Things :
"...The second (non-)image, from a new posting by this artist, shows a different kind of erasure: the shameless censorship with which the Iranian government tries to quell the uprising, blocking more and more web sites and proxy servers."
