Confessing fragmentary knowledge legitimizes a postmodern aesthetic of the fragment.
Evidence
The narrativization of ‘slices’, in the form of ‘fragments of broken mirrors’ (the echo from The Waste Land here is, I think, intentional), only refurbishes the author’s prior disposition towards modernism and postmodernism – that is to say, views of the world which would serve to validate further the ontological primacy of the fragment. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 237
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Postmodern citation replaces the uncanny with a knowingness that kills it. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 310; Knowing in fragments and listening without mastery can be legitimate ways of learning — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 347