>At 10:49 AM 3/24/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>re: "In looking at those artifacts, it's clear to me that there are
>questions of
>>power and voice in who determines the standard."
>>
>>My favorite voice on this is Raymond Williams, who wrote about "standards"
>>that they are
>>the banners beneath which we ride to battle and constituted by
>>political allegiances and alliances than "truth"
>>
>>Raymond Williams
>>keywords
>>1978
>>verso press
>
>i recently had occasion to reply to someone on the subject that (imho)
>"standards" are always flexible and arbitrary conventions used primarily to
>ensure that too many of those to whom they are to be applied do not qualify
>to question or benefit from them...
>leftrev k
>
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