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“In the illusory babels of language, an artist might advance specifically to get lost, and to intoxicate himself in dizzying syntaxes, seeking odd intersections of meaning, strange corridors of history, unexpected echoes, unknown humors, or voids of knowledge… but this quest is risky, full of bottomless fictions and endless architectures and counter-architectures… at the end, if there is an end, are perhaps only meaningless reverberations.” --Robert Smithson  Illustration: Ars Memoriae: The Theatre (1619) - Robert Fludd
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“In the illusory babels of language, an artist might advance specifically to get lost, and to intoxicate himself in dizzying syntaxes, seeking odd intersections of meaning, strange corridors of history, unexpected echoes, unknown humors, or voids of knowledge… but this quest is risky, full of bottomless fictions and endless architectures and counter-architectures… at the end, if there is an end, are perhaps only meaningless reverberations.” --Robert Smithson
Illustration: Ars Memoriae: The Theatre (1619) - Robert Fludd

Seeking connections, bridges and intersections between high culture, pulp and avant-garde, or, towards a postmodern canon.

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Jahsonic is the online persona of encyclopedist Jan-Willem Geerinck.

Jahsonic's first web presence was here from (1996-2001) and then Jahsonic.com[1] (2002-today). Jahsonic.com is is still his main URL.

His posts appear here[2] and here[3].

His references in print [4].


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