User:Catachrestic

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Hello, I use the handle Catachrestic, a literary term which means "the misuse of language." My real name is Chris DeFay. I am an occasional contributor to the Wikipedia universe and am a strong proponent of the distributed knowledge found therein. My primary contributions have been additions of missing data, editing pre-existing text contributed by other Wikipedians so they better conform to conventional written English. I have also occasionally removed poorly worded or unsubstantiated comments by other users. I hold advanced degrees issued from North American universities and consider myself an expert in the following areas:

* Art History 
   * 19th/20th century American and European Art
   * Modern and Contemporary Art
   * Modern Sculpture
   * Art of the 1960s
   * Impressionism
   * artist-engineer and artist-scientist collaboration

In addition to areas in which I am an expert, I believe I am qualified to contribute intelligently in the following areas:

* 19th Century Utopianism and Utopian Movements
* Aesthetics and Aesthetic Theory
* 19th Century European philosophical thought
* pedagogy
* web technology, databases, search technologies

--Catachrestic (talk) 23:50, 24 January 2008 (UTC)