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culture

Idioms of Absence

An epigenetic self-replication of the spiritual void, manifest as cultural entities in the contemporary Chinese art of Mi Qiaoming.

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Philosophy

Hollow Wisdom and Love

Do we fall in love with a person or do we fall in love with the idea of a person? We can never ever really get inside someone else’s head, experience the world as they do and through their eyes, so we are surely only ever as much in love with who we think that […]

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Alien Anthropology

Now you see it… now you don’t.

The fact that any of this is happening at all is really quite peculiar but we seem to be blind to it, desensitised, unaware.

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Philosophy

No Ultimate Truth

The one ultimate truth is that there is no ultimate truth.

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culture

United Nations of Emptiness

The only way that systemic unity can exist is, enigmatically, by not existing.

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Philosophy

Own your own emptiness

We are all empty, don’t let the shambling leviathan of commercial culture make you feel less than you are, feel worthless or unvalued and unloved.

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Philosophy

Death

Death. Life. Mortality. Absence. Emptiness.

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Alien Anthropology

Convenient Fictions of Non-being

None of us actually exist, at least not in the ways we generally believe that we do.

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Psychology

The Emptiness

There may be something tragically inevitable in the procedural hollowing-out of social lives in an era of accelerating and technologically-mediated hyper-connectivity.

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culture

All Hollow

We are our own products and the curators of our selves…

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culture

Vampires

Some days are like vampires…

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Philosophy

A Tangled Emptiness of “I”

There’s not as much to you and your subjective self as you think, or at least – most of it is not in any sense your own…