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

of exchange carried by bodily desire
Item: Groceries (Real Foods)
Cost: £18.75
Needs: 10% Survival, 20% Safety, 20% Love/belonging, 10% Esteem, 40% Self-actualisation
Affect: Good / +6
Notes
fancy tea and seaweed soap and soy milk and avocados and...

of exchange carried by bodily desire 
Item: Groceries (Real Foods) 
Cost: £18.75   
Needs: 10% Survival, 20% Safety, 20% Love/belonging, 10% Esteem, 40% Self-actualisation 
Affect: Good / +6 

Notes 
fancy tea and seaweed soap and soy milk and avocados and flaked almonds and for goodness’ sake crispbread / but none of this registers as a cultural signifier / i do not experience these purchases in this moment as markers of privilege and identity / now that i write about them i know to make a reference / like routine / but at the time i felt only pleasure and care and mutual joy / a smoothness of exchange carried by bodily desire and ethical surfaces / i almost almost almost had fun / fun in a shop is inconceivable to me / then and now / but it was almost there