Inside the Text

Sacred Jedi Texts: Canon and the Specter of Endings

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BEING an account of the passing of the Star Wars Expanded Universe into Legends; how canon becomes an abyss at the hands of its undead Author; what happens when said Author is also a corporation; and why canon--and capitalism--must end.

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MAIN SOURCES:

  • The Legendary Star Wars Expanded Universe Turns A New Page, starwars.com, April 25, 2014 (https://www.starwars.com/news/the-legendary-star-wars-expanded-universe-turns-a-new-page)
  • Gerry Canavan, "Hokey Religions: Star Wars and Star Trek in the Age of Reboots" 2017, Extrapolation (https://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1466&context=english_fac)
  • Mike Rugnetta, “Canon Is an Abyss,” January 25, 2019 (https://rugnetta.com/2019/01/25/canon-is-an-abyss/)
  • Bart D. Ehrman, Lost Christianities, Oxford University Press, 2003
  • Frank Kermode, The Sense of an Ending, Oxford University Press, 2000
  • Steve Baxi, “The Philosophy of Endings (or Why I Hate Endgame), April 18, 2020 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhjhlja3azM)

    • FULL SOURCES AND CLIPS:

    https://insidethetext.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/sources_sacred-jedi-texts.pdf 

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