I am brought back, after years away, to Jouke Kleerebezem's 1993 Mediamatic essay The Exuberant Publicness of the Promised World, and realize that my ability to read continental philosophy & theory has declined somewhat in the intervening years (And here we encounter names like Avital Ronell, Hakim Bey!). However! There are delightful phrases here, including the title, which I love, the coinage Jargonia and The dumb wish for a world in which we are at home dominates our thoughts and works; it is the desire for a world dominated by a natural, cultivatable harmony - the forgiving world -- the forgiving world! -- what a paradise. And this, from Paul Valéry:

Ain't it true, of blogs, of projects, of love. Yes.

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