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"The hands are empty. The faces are empty."

"i must admit that jia zhangke is who i think of as the greatest working director today. all of his films are one project, no one better captures the eerie alienation of today's post-historical epoch, the search for meaning under capitalism's auspice; antonioni's true successor." --@comrade_yui

What are your favorite literary works that are especially philosophically intriguing?

"tezpole sitter"

if we should fail · our feathered visitors
their turquoise tarryings · return to the Great Silence
their lesser, & leave · humans alone
to face the fumes · of our mad machinations
my poems remain poised · above pure fathoms
of tarnished turquoise · in the hideous half-light

"Our feeling is that 90 percent of the information is online. I have a suspicion the real answer is 0.9 percent."