Kinds of fragments
 

Bernstein (93) notes that "the fragment" is not one size fits all: one could distinguish, for instance, between "a fragmentation that attempts to valorize the concept of a free-floating signifier unbounded to social significance, that sees no meaning outside conventional discourse and only arbitary codicity (convention's arbitary formalism) within it" and "a fragmentation that reflects a conception of meaning as prevented by conventional narrative and so uses disjunction as a method of tapping into other possibilities of meaning available within language"

> from Charles Bernstein's A Poetics (1992)

> tagged with #poetics, #meaning, #fragments

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