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| | Wanton Knowledge: The Canon and the 'Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Marginalization and suppression, which are indeed tactics employed regularly by institutions threatened by bodies of knowledge they cannot control, are apparently no longer as effective as they once were. |
 | | The second strategy, suppression, involves the destruction of the threatening discourse, and, quite frequently in the historical record, the source of the discourse: consider, for example, the suppression of the Coptics, Gnostics and Arians in the early history of the Church, or the refusal of the US to allow Farley Mowat into the country. |
 | | Both cooption and suppression are preceded by marginalization: the pushing of the alternative discourse to the boundaries of the social, away from the center and its dissemination mechanisms. |
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