How Was Yor Dream?

Limited Edition of 1000
168 pages
Dimensions: 20.5 × 29 cm
Printing: CMYK + Pantone Neon Green & Blue, UV varnished

How Was Your Dream? deals with new forms of demonstration and insurrection in our post-contemporary era, dominated by seamless control societies.

In 2014, the “Umbrella Movement” in Hong Kong was quickly repressed by state and police violence. In 2019, the democratic uprising that began in May developed new means of continuation.

Faced with a sophisticated arsenal of control — facial recognition, geolocation, carding, eavesdropping, infiltration, water cannons, tear gas, helicopters, sonic weapons, and non-lethal rifles — Hong Kong demonstrators developed a repertoire of techniques based on principles of invisibility and untraceability: anonymity, blinding lasers, Faraday pockets, drone surveillance, masks of all kinds, encrypted communication, and more.

These new devices, which contribute to the transformation of forms of struggle and resistance, also push towards the gradual erasure of individual singularities. In the future, will societies and sophisticated systems of control force us to make our human singularities disappear? Will this happen in favour of a new common identity?

As novelist and philosopher Alain Damasio evokes in La Zone du Dehors:
“The end justifies the means… But who will justify the end?”