The New New Babel. A Baroc-Postmodern Radiography of our Century
The New New Babel. A Baroc-Postmodern Radiography of our Century

Summary/Abstract: The adventure of words. Searching for a language in the Babel of contemporary languages is nothing but the personal attempt, along with the collective one (ethnic, professional, linguistic etc. derived groups), to find channels of communication, to give birth to meanings, to words endowed with content able to feed, to clean, to draw coherent navigation trajectories through the tumultuous century of slides, to reposition. The academic text – delivering a discourse supposed to be cold, scientific, deprived of personal enthusiasm infusion – is also part of the saga of this search of connections, of remedies, of excursions through dead waters in order to find life, meanings, coherence. Going back to a reformulation of the academic discourse, infusing it with demiurgic, divine breaths of life, delivering truths, proposing theories, solutions, landmarks etc. mean no other thing than to orienting the word towards the materialisation of the unseen. Theologically. As a part of life. In the same direction, providing the daily discourse with sense, supporting what is said with what is done, means only searching for coherence in the Babel of non-senses, going down from the imaginary towards the concreteness with the weapons of simplicity, of involvement, in a natural way. Infusing spirit, like the ascetics’ discourses, which, in a clean, terrestrial language, deliver truths scientifically demonstrated. Improving (non)existence in the imaginary is also part of the attempt to demolish the Babel, which limits in an extreme way the possibility to communicate, in order to find possibilities of dialogue, of communion, of harmony. The socialisation means offer the possibility to manufacture the perfect discourse on the world’s stages, the perfect text, the perfect novel, the perfect love, the perfect friendship, the perfect life story, according to handmade rigors. As it is handmade, not infused with truths, this improvisation of clichés and superficial tear-inducing canvas, will not lead, obviously, to communication, to concrete dialogue. Hence, the deafening daily noise, the amalgam of nonsense, the pseudo-dialogue, the synapses, the collapse. The problem appears when we start channelling our energies in reality as well, in order to materialize these projects, when the physical body goes out to fight the world and to face its dragons, its tempests, its spring breezes, its summers rains, its floods, heats or snows. The way towards the fulfilment of the personal dream is not but an initiatory road, a plait of paths, wonderings, returns, restarts, short cuts, a road with stories aspiring to become reality, a mix of ups and downs, attempts that position us in a multiform manner in relation to the world in order to get a uniform position in the end, in our own mirror/matrix/story. Our personal path itself cannot be but a scion of the path together with the others, the path of the world, the attempt to break the Babel and to harmoniously rebuild it, the perfect taste of communion by means of communication. The present paper aims at being not an academic text about the (pseudo)language of the age we live in, not a text filled with academic phrases and theories, but a text in a terrestrial formulation, filtering the world’s words and deeds, at the foot of Babel, helped by the GPS of personal experience.

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