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What Kind of Postmodernist Are You?
revisionist historian
You are a Revisionist Historian. You are the Clark
Kent of postmodernists. You probably want to
work in a library or in social services. No
one suspects you of being a postmodernist...
until they read your publications!

What kind of postmodernist are you!?
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Re: Never denied it myself

Submitted by robmacdougall on Tue, 2005-05-17 07:59.
Outlying provinces checking in: Cyberculture Floozie. Must be my Burning Man days coming back to haunt me. But that's really a subset of "Theory Slut", isn't it? Just a synonym for slut and a particularly trendy-flimsy set of theories.

Re: Never denied it myself

Submitted by jdresner on Sun, 2005-05-15 16:03.
Until KC and Hugo take the test, we really won't know, will we?

Seriously, though, I think most historians will come out either as Revisionist (because we are) or Slut (it's that agnostic syncretic thing).

Re: Usually...

Submitted by lisa vox on Sun, 2005-05-15 08:46.
Well, I came out a "gender nazi." Really. I even posted it on my own blog and implicitly blamed you, Ralph, linking to your original post to boot. 8)
The question that earned me that title was probably the, ahem, porn question. For the "burning man" question, I called it bourgeois.
Well, you take a quiz on postmodernism, and you get what you deserve....heh.

Re: Usually...

Submitted by rluker on Sun, 2005-05-15 03:59.
Being unwilling to accept responsibility for my own recommendations, I blame Miriam Jones at The Valve, footnote #1.

Re: Usually...

Submitted by jdresner on Sun, 2005-05-15 03:41.
Yeah, me too. I think it may be conflating syncretic agnosticism with theoretical dilletantism... that's the nice answer:

I looked back at the questions, and I can't make heads or tails out of a connection between the answers I gave and the results I got. For that matter, I can't figure out what the connection is between any of the questions and the available answers.

Maybe it's a postmodern thing?

Re: Never denied it myself

Submitted by rluker on Sun, 2005-05-15 13:18.
I am, frankly, very nervous about this. What is the perfectly baked pie on many sluts must there be in a College of Cliopatriarchs?

Re: Never denied it myself

Submitted by ochamberlain on Sat, 2005-05-14 18:33.
Wow, where can I copy of that compilation!

Really. I have no idea what it would sound like, but I'd love to find out.

PS I haven't taken the test, but should I assume that I have categorized myself?

Re: Never denied it myself

Submitted by jdresner on Sat, 2005-05-14 13:58.
You've always said Cliopatria was a promiscuous breeder... now we know why.

Never denied it myself

Submitted by jreynolds on Sat, 2005-05-14 08:36.
I'm a theory slutt too!

Anybody out there want too hook up and deconstruct?

Re: Never denied it myself

Submitted by dsalmanson on Mon, 2005-05-16 10:29.
Gender Nazi. Which I think is a nice way of saying Sensitive New Age Guy. I hope.

Re: Never denied it myself

Submitted by grobinson on Mon, 2005-05-16 11:30.
I came out as a revisionist historian, but I think it comes from not having a good answer to what I am doing at 11 pm on a Saturday. In fact, I am doing the same thing I am doing 11 pm any other day--readingm, emailing, or working.

Re: Never denied it myself

Submitted by rluker on Sat, 2005-05-14 12:49.
I suppose I shouldn't be shocked that there are _at least two_ slutty Cliopatriarchs! If the news gets out, I'll have all kinds of damage control to do.

Re: Never denied it myself

Submitted by mahmed on Sat, 2005-05-14 14:50.
Um. I am a Theory Slut, too. The sad thing is that I DO have an Indonesian hiphop compilation. Man, I need help.

Re: Never denied it myself

Submitted by meburste on Sat, 2005-05-14 21:13.
Uh-oh. I'm a revisionist historian. As a UCI graduate, shouldn't I be a theory slut? And I could have sworn I was an English professor. Must change departments.

Re: Never denied it myself

Submitted by showard on Tue, 2005-05-17 11:23.
This quiz really did not work for me... too many American references I didn't know and 'none of the aboves'. But FWIW, revisionist historian. No fair. I wannabe a slut.

Re: Never denied it myself

Submitted by timothy burke on Sun, 2005-05-15 08:27.
I also came out as a theory slut.

Re: Usually...

Submitted by rluker on Sat, 2005-05-14 02:02.
I'm glad you didn't take offense. I forgot the :)

Re: Usually...

Submitted by jdresner on Sat, 2005-05-14 01:58.
I find denial to be a much-maligned but useful defense mechanism....

Usually...

Submitted by jdresner on Sat, 2005-05-14 01:20.
...we end up with very similar answers. Not this time: I got "Theory Slut" which I can only attribute to my fondness for epistemology.... or something.

Re: Usually...

Submitted by rluker on Sat, 2005-05-14 01:39.
You're not acknowledging that slutty side of yourself.

Re: Usually...

Submitted by jahkemp on Sun, 2005-05-15 02:41.
I'm a Theory Slut, too -- i don't get it. i'm so anti-theory it hurts! Bad quiz. Bad, bad, quiz.