U is a 'corporate anthropologist' who while working on a giant epoch-defining project no one really understands is also tasked with writing the Great Report on our society But instead U spends his days procrastinating meandering through endless buffer-zones of information & becoming obsessed by the images with which the world bombards him on a daily basis oil spills African traffic jams roller-blade processions Is there a secret logic holding all these images together? Once cracked will it unlock the master-meaning of our era? Might it have something to do with the dead parachutists in the news? Perhaps; perhaps not