P011 → The 4 Poisons of Symbolic Consumption


The paper screen in your hands is a carefully designed paradox.

This interactive publication, resembling a phone, immerses you in an experimental journey, using the tactile sensation of paper and the violent aesthetics of pixelation.Here, the Buddhist "Four Poisons"-greed, anger, ignorance, and pride-transform into emotional viruses of the algorithm age. Each turn of the page is a silent act of resistance against digital manipulation. Social media tames human emotions into quantifiable data.
Likes = Attachment & Desire

Shares = Aversion & Hatred

Comment = Delusion & Ignorance

Coin = Conceit & ArroganceAs you flip through pages designed to mimic the proportions of a phone, the piece constantly reminds you that the "infinity" of the digital world is nothing but a lie constrained by the physical realm.

Quote the representation of animals in Bhavachakra, revealing this through fables:Pigeon = Attachment & Desire

Pig = Delusion & Ignorance

Snake = Aversion & Hatred

Peacock = Conceit & Arrogance

Flicker in low-resolution images, like ancient warning stones in the ruins of the digital world. Sharp phrases

"The speed at which you scroll = the rate of growth of 4 poisons"
are embedded into the pages like shards of glass, piercing through the sugary coating of information and exposing how social media amplifies these emotions, breeding endless desires, conflicts, and frustrations. The piece doesn't offer answers but forces you to ask:
When "freedom of choice" becomes the prisoner's dilemma of algorithmic push, can we regain control of our thinking?