ABSTRACT
Apoignant moment in Eric Michaels’s (1990) posthumously published diary is when he reports a conversation with Nick Zurbrugg in Brisbane, in which the latter takes Fredric Jameson to task for his theory of postmodernism, laying out a critique that to Michaels seems valid and just.1 As Michaels records in his diary, he silently noted to himself that, the pertinence of the arguments notwithstanding, Jameson was still Jameson and Zurbrugg still Zurbrugg. This distribution of discursive power being what it is, Jameson would remain safe from provincial critique-no matter how valid.
