Insistence
Insistence

Summary/Abstract: This paragraph appears on the opening page of what was my first encounter with Jesper. On the title page, I find the signature of an undergraduate student, bearing my name; underneath, he has written the year, 1989. …1989. Like 1789, a revolutionary, catastrophic year. Nothing suggested that the year would become anything special, but in hindsight, there is a before and an after. It is a singular point in time, at least to a European. It was the year where I discovered – in my own body, world and mind – that the reality we live in is historical; that it may change rapidly in completely unforeseen ways; and that maybe ‘life’, in the general, always adapts, somehow; but that life, in the personal, in a very concrete way, is about getting one’s bearings under change: not only adapting, but also shaping that reality and those relations that one is embedded in.

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