"Chinese art has a functional relationship with nature, not a mimetic one. It is not a question of depicting as realistically as possible but of operating exactly like nature. In nature, successive variations ...produce something...clearly without any kind of genius."
Byung-Chul Han
Plato's Ideas, twice removed imitations
Aristotle's Poetics, the mechanisms of hands and mind
Nature as asian abacus - round numerations
"Towards a voluntary emptying...
Conceive a fellowship that requires neither fellowship nor kinship"
"Capitalism does not love the empty or the quiet"
"Keep your center empty"
B-C Han