I'm a struggling sociologist. This is how I think of myself now. I've recently gotten word back from the University of Waterloo that they won't be accepting my Ph. D application this year. This is the third university to deny me admission in the span of 2 years. There's no denying how depressing and exhausting this has been.
However, these events have led me here. I've been blessed with a curiosity for something that requires very few resources. I'm not a painter (though I dabble), or a musician (though that's probably my main source of recreation) or anything else that needs a whole organization backing it, or much in terms of material investment. I write and read. Thanks to the internet, both of these activities have become so easily accessible that you really have to find reasons not to indulge.
What this site is going to be is up in the air. I want it to be very loose. I've been writing as a student and a music reviewer for quite a while now and have become increasingly aware of my trepidation when it comes to publishing. This site is designed to facilitate in me a more ad-hoc attitude. The purpose of this site is to have no purpose (I love paradoxes, BTW).
Okay, well, that's not entirely true. Most will probably see a markedly academic air surrounding the topics I want to discuss here. I'm certainly tapped into a lot of the current going-ons of pop culture, and love discussing them, but these curios do tend to lead into other considerations that are typically more sociological. I don't intend to be dense or obtuse. I will always try to be as clear as can be. But I won't be skirting the line between accessible and esoteric on this site. I'm just gonna let the shit my brain comes up with dribble onto the keyboard.
I also swear a lot in person. I don't know how I intend to address this when it comes to the posts here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Let's move onto the title. It fucking (well, I guess I already made a decision in regards to swearing) oozes with suffocating pretension. I mean, the question has to be asked: is the title worth it when you feel like you have to explain the thing in your very first post?
Well, I like it. It's not my fault that these are words loaded with an air of 'ivory tower'. The idea of 'contemporary quoptidian' gets the most directly to what interests me the most. What interests me are the things we take for granted (the quotidian, or 'day-to-day') and their current (i.e. contemporary) characteristics. I'll go into how I've developed this interest, but it mostly stems from my foundational experiences as a student of cultural anthropology, and my recent discovery of Niklas Luhmann by way of my Masters advisor at Dalhousie University, Dr. Jean-Sébastien Guy.
That's the intro out of the way, so let's see what happens going forward.
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