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Friday, February 13, 2004

bricoleur

I stumbled across this word in one of the regular newsletters I receive:

Somehow it is not surprising that a journal titled Postmodern Culture would find a home on the Internet, which itself is a bricoleur of many different forms and styles, akin to the very notion of postmodernism.

Nice sounding word, pretty clear in the context, but I wanted a more precise definition. Google almost failed me.

I say "almost" because the define:  functionality gave me no hits. Googling on just the word, then confirming that I only wanted English results—I guess it's roughly equivalent to "builder" in French—yielded a definition and entymology which, while it may not exactly match the use in context, still may have its uses.

Posted 02/13/2004 10:07 by Fritz | Comments (0) | TrackBack