MITCHELL, Dan
How to cope with abundance

The work in this publication aims to offer some questions regarding what this means for the modern psyche, caught as it is in the never-ending massive array of choices. From supermaket shelves to entertainment feeds, images to opinions, lifestyle apps to art in the booths of countless fairs, all these products and service options come with their own tailored campaigns, alerts and notifications. Our hyperactive attention must navigate the multidimensional, interlinked suggestions in the form of a giant, ubiquitous, ever-morphing, collaged blitz of multimedia.

This abundance causes its own form of stress; a dizzying, paralysing, and alienating effect takes hold. This anxiety can soon be relived by suscribing to any of the many compulsive reward mechanisms made available by modern ralism: drugs, sex, impulse buying, gambling, smoking, drinking, doomscrolling etc.

Published by Dirty Books, 2024
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