Re: unusual language [postmodernism]

Christopher Lott (fncll@AURORA.ALASKA.EDU)
Thu, 10 Oct 1996 10:03:40 -0800


On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Eric Crump wrote:

>How about this? Can we keep the idea of canon but strip it of its
>petrifying institutional power? Can we open the possibility of millions of
>canons, of canons that are fundamentally unstable, that are constructed
>idiosyncratically and shift continually? Canons that are only snapshots of
>knowledge, products of the moment but eternal processes of the intellect?

Isn't this what there is right now, protests to the contrary
notwithstanding?

c

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