29 March 2006
modernism's spears of destiny
Recently I had a dream in which Britney Spears came to visit me at my parents' house. We were flicking through a Tv guide together, she all smiles, me wondering wtf Britney Spears was doing sitting at a table covered with that ancient old laminated-Liberty-pattern motif that my dear pragmatic-yet-tasteful parents have. She pointed to something in the Tv guide. 'Look,' she said, 'there's a Vertov thing on at 3pm. We should watch it.' Britney Spears? Vertov? 3pm?
If dreams, as Lacan tells us, are, like, all about the symbolic, composed of the floating and differential relations between the signifier and the signifier, and not about, y'know, the world or anything, I conclude the following:
This was a dream about the formal characteristics of Christianity (the trinity), modernity (Vertov) and virginity/being up the duff (Britney's transformation from 'not for a million dollars will I put out' to 'I've always wanted to be a young mom').
The oddest thing of all - it turns out someone has worked this out already! This mad as fuck pro-life sculpture of Britney on a bear-skin rug (though it really should be a lion-Aslan-Christ) sort-of says it all really:
If dreams, as Lacan tells us, are, like, all about the symbolic, composed of the floating and differential relations between the signifier and the signifier, and not about, y'know, the world or anything, I conclude the following:
This was a dream about the formal characteristics of Christianity (the trinity), modernity (Vertov) and virginity/being up the duff (Britney's transformation from 'not for a million dollars will I put out' to 'I've always wanted to be a young mom').
The oddest thing of all - it turns out someone has worked this out already! This mad as fuck pro-life sculpture of Britney on a bear-skin rug (though it really should be a lion-Aslan-Christ) sort-of says it all really:
