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My journal is called Lapsed Modernist because this journal is like a transparent telephone of my thoughts and that adds up to lapsed modernism. The idea is, when you are a lapsed Catholic you lose your faith in God and the sanctity of the church as an institution, but cosmology notwithstanding, your ways of dealing with the world-via-Catholic paradigm remain hardwired into your brain. How is this related to modernism? It's an analogy, not a homology. The Modernist Project died some time between the two world wars. (An argument can be made that the PNAC retroimperialism has ushered in a zombie modernism, or, I suppose, a Frankenstein one, since it is made as bits and pieces that are the ludic toys of pomo fragmentation). The lapsed modernist is like a lapsed Catholic, in the sense that just like for a lapsed Catholic there is no longer an ontological being justifying their paradigm of being, the dialectic of guilt and redemption (and all the appended, derivative binaries) as a modus operandi is still there. So, with a lapsed modernist, there is no ethos imbuing the discourse anymore, but the functional, structural binaries that are the frameworks for perceiving the world, are still there. So, for me, the Modernist ethos is gone, the Grand Narrative is no more, and I am in full possession of the pomo Ethos, but atavistically and stubbornly I think in binaries and reify like it's the 1940s.
My subtitle at the moment is "Elementary, My Dear Watson." I change my subtitle occasionally, whereas the title has been in place ever since I thought of it, like three years ago. You can even google it these days and it will have links to my journal. Anyway, as I am sure we all know the phrase comes from the Sherlock Holmes ouvre (although I don't believe it was ever used in any book, only in film adaptations of Doyle's work), and it symbolizes my fetish for deductive logic (and some more secondary fetishes: England, thin, brilliant, drug-addicted men, unambiguous outcomes, etc.)
My friends page is called Bricolage--I mean it in the Levi-Straussian mythopoetic way, of signs located between percepts and concepts. The 'bricoleur' is adept at performing a large number of diverse tasks; but, unlike the engineer, he does not subordinate each of them to the availability of raw materials and tools conceived and procured for the purpose of the project. His universe of instruments is closed and the rules of his game are always to make do with 'whatever is at hand', that is to say with a set of tools and materials which is always finite and is also heterogeneous because what it contains bears no relation to the current project, or indeed to any particular project, but is the contingent result of all the occasions there have been to renew or enrich the stock or to maintain it with the remains of previous constructions or destructions. I find this to be a useful model for conceptualizing the livejournal narratives of self.
My username is anthrochica because I am a girl who studies anthropology. I will grant you that it is kind of a retarded username. I wouldn't have picked it today. All I can say in my defense is a) at the time when I started my livejournal I couldn' t have foreseen what a social project and a large part of my life it would become, pnts gave me a code and I started it on a whim, using my default email address handle as my username and b) w/r/t the said email address handle, I did not engage in purposeful gratuitous appropriation of foreign words, anthrogirl was already taken on both yahoo and hotmail when I was transitioning out of my UCLA email account.
My default userpic is a Shiori Matsumoto painting. I cannot remember what it is called but in general I love her aesthetic, and I like that particular piece because the girl is holding/hiding/spying from behind a book and I think the girl kind of looks like me. Also you can't see it in the icon but the book she is holding is by Jules Verne, and I was obsessed with Jules Verne throughout my childhood.
mycrustMy journal is called _____ because _____.
My subtitle is _____ because _____.
My friends page is called _____ because _____.
My username is ____ because _____.
My default userpic is _____ because_____.
My journal is called Lapsed Modernist because this journal is like a transparent telephone of my thoughts and that adds up to lapsed modernism. The idea is, when you are a lapsed Catholic you lose your faith in God and the sanctity of the church as an institution, but cosmology notwithstanding, your ways of dealing with the world-via-Catholic paradigm remain hardwired into your brain. How is this related to modernism? It's an analogy, not a homology. The Modernist Project died some time between the two world wars. (An argument can be made that the PNAC retroimperialism has ushered in a zombie modernism, or, I suppose, a Frankenstein one, since it is made as bits and pieces that are the ludic toys of pomo fragmentation). The lapsed modernist is like a lapsed Catholic, in the sense that just like for a lapsed Catholic there is no longer an ontological being justifying their paradigm of being, the dialectic of guilt and redemption (and all the appended, derivative binaries) as a modus operandi is still there. So, with a lapsed modernist, there is no ethos imbuing the discourse anymore, but the functional, structural binaries that are the frameworks for perceiving the world, are still there. So, for me, the Modernist ethos is gone, the Grand Narrative is no more, and I am in full possession of the pomo Ethos, but atavistically and stubbornly I think in binaries and reify like it's the 1940s.
My subtitle at the moment is "Elementary, My Dear Watson." I change my subtitle occasionally, whereas the title has been in place ever since I thought of it, like three years ago. You can even google it these days and it will have links to my journal. Anyway, as I am sure we all know the phrase comes from the Sherlock Holmes ouvre (although I don't believe it was ever used in any book, only in film adaptations of Doyle's work), and it symbolizes my fetish for deductive logic (and some more secondary fetishes: England, thin, brilliant, drug-addicted men, unambiguous outcomes, etc.)
My friends page is called Bricolage--I mean it in the Levi-Straussian mythopoetic way, of signs located between percepts and concepts. The 'bricoleur' is adept at performing a large number of diverse tasks; but, unlike the engineer, he does not subordinate each of them to the availability of raw materials and tools conceived and procured for the purpose of the project. His universe of instruments is closed and the rules of his game are always to make do with 'whatever is at hand', that is to say with a set of tools and materials which is always finite and is also heterogeneous because what it contains bears no relation to the current project, or indeed to any particular project, but is the contingent result of all the occasions there have been to renew or enrich the stock or to maintain it with the remains of previous constructions or destructions. I find this to be a useful model for conceptualizing the livejournal narratives of self.
My username is anthrochica because I am a girl who studies anthropology. I will grant you that it is kind of a retarded username. I wouldn't have picked it today. All I can say in my defense is a) at the time when I started my livejournal I couldn' t have foreseen what a social project and a large part of my life it would become, pnts gave me a code and I started it on a whim, using my default email address handle as my username and b) w/r/t the said email address handle, I did not engage in purposeful gratuitous appropriation of foreign words, anthrogirl was already taken on both yahoo and hotmail when I was transitioning out of my UCLA email account.
My default userpic is a Shiori Matsumoto painting. I cannot remember what it is called but in general I love her aesthetic, and I like that particular piece because the girl is holding/hiding/spying from behind a book and I think the girl kind of looks like me. Also you can't see it in the icon but the book she is holding is by Jules Verne, and I was obsessed with Jules Verne throughout my childhood.
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Date: 2004-11-22 12:32 pm (UTC)and
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Date: 2004-11-22 02:19 pm (UTC)where is your username from?
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Date: 2004-11-23 08:54 am (UTC)no subject
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