期刊名称：Illumine: Journal of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society Graduate Students Association
印刷版ISSN：1712-5634
出版年度：2010
卷号：5
期号：1
页码：45-55
语种：English
出版社：University of Victoria
摘要：Linkages exist between premodern and postmodern texts in such areas as the construction and maintenance of power, as well as in the varieties of resistant experience. Power is something that we all participate in—primarily through what we know, wherein knowledge equals praxis. If knowledge is something we do, then our choices about what we know can be places of resistance. Premodern examples of such resistance can be found in St. Augustine, the desert fathers, the mystics and the “little saints” of Aquitaine. Are these examples so different from postmodernists? Anarchy is not advocated, but an awareness of the constructs of power that we encounter not just in the academy but also in every day life. We live in an age that demands “a mould in plaster,” where reality equals reality TV. Yet pockets of resistance “punctually come forever and ever.”
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