Everything I Bought and How It Made Me Feel

a year-long log of my purchases / a project to weaponize the quantified self / an auto-anthropology of the consumer subject / a self-help diary / an attempt to mine the nature of daily anxiety / a lo-res dataset about late capitalism / a car crash / a sick joke / a repetitive litany of suffering / an exploration of loser agency / a parodox of subjectivation / an exercise in hope / quarterly reports and info about the artist at www.harrygiles.org

some of the food might not be poision
Item: Groceries (M&S)
Cost: £17.41
Needs: 20% Survival, 40% Safety, 40% Love/belonging
Affect: Fair / +3
Notes
what keeps pulling me back / the branding? / the class comfort? / the store aesthetics? / the vague...

some of the food might not be poision 
Item: Groceries (M&S)  
Cost: £17.41 
Needs: 20% Survival, 40% Safety, 40% Love/belonging   
Affect: Fair / +3 

Notes 
what keeps pulling me back / the branding? / the class comfort? / the store aesthetics? / the vague sense that it’s the best of a bad bunch? / that some of the food might not be poision? / my hatred here burns differently than in box stores / more ironic and expasperated than desperate / i’m embarrassed but i don’t hate myself here / i scowl at the world but i don’t hate it here / and i wish i knew why