Power Networks of Symbolic Violence

Gabe Gudding has an excellently overstated little diatribe against joinerism on his blog today:

Poetries that find their way to most anthologies often seem already invested in power networks of symbolic violence that try or have tried either rapidly or overtly to develop cultural capital through group affiliation.

The man is sticking it to the men sticking it to the man, methinks.

One Comment

  1. Robert
    Posted October 6, 2006 at 6:07 pm | Permalink

    Smart retort by Gary Sullivan:

    http://garysullivan.blogspot.com/2006/10/on-why-not-to-pretend-youre-island.html

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