Satpreet Kahlon

research archive i am an artist

[hornedmelonproductions]

[absencesrepetees]

“A capitalist society requires a culture based on images. It needs to furnish vast amounts of entertainment in order to stimulate buying and anesthetize the injuries of class, race, and sex. And it needs to gather unlimited amounts of information, the better to exploit natural resources, increase productivity, keep order, make war, give jobs to bureaucrats. The camera’s twin capacities, to subjectivize reality and to objectify it, ideally serve these needs and strengthen them. Cameras define reality in the two ways essential to the workings of an advanced industrial society: as a spectacle (for the masses), and as an object of surveillance (for rulers). The production of images also furnishes a ruling ideology. Social change is replaced by a change in images. The freedom to consume a plurality of images and goods is equated with freedom itself. The narrowing of free political choice to free economic consumption requires the unlimited production and consumption of images.”

— Susan Sontag, On Photography (via la-femme-terrible)

[demonius-darkblade]

Disabled is used to classify persons deemed less exploitable or not exploitable by the owning class who control the means of production in a capitalist economy.

Marta Russell

[guerrillatech]

[brown-lesbian]

[nobrashfestivity]

Onchi Koshiro, The Four Seasons, 1927

[satpreet]

-The Dolly Moment, Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom

[satpreet]

-The Dolly Moment, Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom

[satpreet]

-The Dolly Moment, Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom

[the-bright-path-deactivated2021]

[guerrillatech]

[satpreet]

a return (of gaze to gaze, of body to place), satpreet kahlon, 2021

[johnny-moredread]

“Debt’s origins come from colonialism’s origins. Those who lend us money are those who colonized us. They are the same ones who used to manage our states and economies. These are the colonizers who indebted Africa through their brothers and cousins, who were the lenders. We had no connections with this debt. Therefore we cannot pay for it.”

— Thomas Sankara, A United Front Against Debt, 1987

[fluoresensitivearchived]

White people when something racist happens: omg omg EW yuck that's so...so shitty like EW why can't everybody be nice omg so nasty ew ew ew YUCKKKKK omg I didn't even Know

[probablyasocialecologist]

“Do men go to war because it is part of human nature? If so, then we might consider it impossible to do away with war. But there is no evidence, in biology, or psychology, or anthropology, of a natural instinct for war. If that were so, we would find a spontaneous rush to war by masses of people. What we find is something very different: we find that governments must make enormous efforts to mobilize populations for war. They must entice soldiers with promises of money, land, education, skills. And if those enticements don’t work, government must coerce. It must conscript young people, force them into military service, threaten them with prison of they do not comply.”

— Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches 1963-2009

[mens-rights-activia]

[guerrillatech]

Black panther poster. Just as relevant today