EXISTENCE AS ITS OWN ESSENCE IS NOTHING OTHER THAN THE FREEDOMOF BEING.Jean-Luc NancyBeing of a media culture, one must assume that "we" are critically at stake. Justas the exigency of being (i.e. the experience of Being) of a media culture demandsfor being (i.e. one and other) to strengthen the experience of community, we mustwelcome the interruption of the other to revitalize a true sense of 'being-with' asthe very essence of Being. Re-articulating Nancy's essential notion of being as"being-with," the invitation of the media poet addresses the current contingenciesof Being of a media culture where the work of a techno-capitalistic society mustbe monitored in relationship to its ever-approaching potential 'speed' limit. Themedia poet comes as a promise of true existence-it gives weigh to the worldingof Being as a particular balance of pain, intimacy, and measure (drawing from aHeideggerian perspective) and it tends to the wound of "weak love" (Cixous). Themedia poet gives measure to 'love' as a human ethics. Encouraging a new way ofthinking and acting of a media culture-accentuating being's "leap into media" asthe most profound fulfillment of one's own "artificial life" (Schirmacher)-together, the living technique of the media poet and language technique of media poeticswelcomes an ethics and responsibilities to come with "kind heart" (Kierkegaard)and "unconditional hospitality" (Derrida). Resistance must come. And, we mustrecognize that the exact measure of being happens poetically. The media poet daresa poetic revolution.----about the authorMichelle Cartier is a media poet and community activist. She holds a Bachelorof Arts degree in Film from Humboldt State University and a PhD in Media andCommunication from the European Graduate School. She is the Co-Founder ofDJ Gleaner y Los Media Poets, a local artist collective and creative mentorshipproject based in Arcata, California.