domestic necessity in civilized nations

ABOUT THE WORK

The stabilization of self as an identity, so as to be commodified into the product-consumption dynamic, which surveillance-economies are founded upon, is a “domestic necessity.” Any aberration of self, any pivot away from a stable self, is revolutionary. The image of self, the Face, is both a capture mechanism, as well, if played on the boundaries, a mechanism of liberation. Ponder: if one thousand people threw their social security numbers into a common hat, and anyone could use anyone else’s number, how quickly things would get topsy-turvy for the surveillance-economy. The social security number is another marker, like the Face, another dual mechanism of capture and liberation. The present works includes excerpts from Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents, stickers from an Amazon Toy Catalog, and hand drawn faces of a “mr. tubbs,” who flows into different categories of being (e.g. devil, poop, candy, lust, etc.).