A central part of Postcolonial theory is the decentraliztion of knowledge, culture, social systems and the literary canon. As the canon is opened up to make space for writers with diverse perspectives, writing from diverse traditions, the idea of a centralized anything is dimenishing. From political control at the local level, to a multiplicity of opinions being heard, the world we live in is consists of multiple centers connected by relationships. These relationships play out in literature of all forms. According to Jaishree K. Odin, “Border subjects thus, live in two or more cultures at the same time. this has given rise to the notion of subjectivity defined in terms of multiple subject positions, which is a direct challenge to the earlier formulation of subjectivity as unitary and singular.” **

Odin goes on to discuss the ways in with electronic media can be seen as a metaphor for culture as a whole. Instead of a society organized around hierarchal modals or physical locations, the postcolonial society is organized around nodes of interests with any one person or any single text being part of multiple nodes simultaneously.

As Landow points out, “Hypertext is infinitely de-centerable and recenterable.”  (P. 12)  Depending on how the reader arrived at this site, the center may have been the images of Crash Worship, the paper text accompanying this site, references to this site on other sites, or the discussion of the Missouri Review.

George P. Landow points out that that as information becomes more decentralized and authority over information fades, the most important method for evaluating information are the social relationships between them. It is these relationships that this website is intended to address by making them tangible.