अहम्
i am a construct
designed by the social paradigms, values, and ideals
constantly defined, and redefined, by a language that determines my social relations, my thought processes, and my understanding of who and what i am
manufactured by images of late stage capitalism and war
produced by a set of cultural practices and values that characterise my perceptions as a series of preferences, dispositions, proclivities, and biases.
The fragmented image, the broken code, the data corruption, or the Glitch stands for the rupture or trauma in one’s memory. By allowing the internal resistance to surface not in behaviour, but through a medium that offers a controlled, abstracted release of tension, the Glitch takes shape of a displaced manifestation, an act that mirrors the inherent struggle of confronting and expressing a repressed memory.
glitch
disturbance
disruption
static
Glitch actively resists the institutional and corporate mandate for digital perfection and smooth functionality. In celebrating the error, Glitch challenges the authority of the structures that demand flawless interfaces, whether in corporate branding, polished media narratives, or seamless institutional data processing.
Glitch fundamentally resists the logic of the market, which values seamless, consumable content that can be easily categorised, packaged, and sold. It is often non-commercial works that are difficult to categorise, and intentionally disruptive, thus acting as an anti-commodity aesthetic.
Glitch is more than an aesthetic play; it is a deliberate strategy of resistance. It is an assertion of your and my digital sovereignty - a declaration that the underlying code of one's existence will not be clean, legible, or profitable for the system.
अहम्
fragmented
fractured
myth
mythos
mythical
mytheme
mythopoeia
mythological
et al.
अहम्
a sense of reality
a sense of identity
in other
words,
i am particularly when viewed through the lens of contemporary art and psychology, is not a fixed, internal core but a dynamic, ever-changing portfolio of roles and narratives. It is the fluid story an individual continuously constructs and performs using my memories and perceptions, adapting them instantly in response to social context, cultural demands, and the pervasive influence of technology. This perspective sees identity as an artistic creation - a constant process of expression, mediation, and redefinition.
aham_2025/reyyi
website consisting mixed media and text
dimensions variable
piece of capitalism
2025.
act of becoming
within the pre-existing hierarchies of languagehistory that establish a shared meaning and define a collective identity through a communal network of signifiers. shaped by a dominant narrative and institutions that sanction ways of thinking and ways of constituting knowledge that produce subjectivities and power relations through the structure and system of language intangible social relations and inalienable resources transformed as consumable commodity.
TM
@reyyified
allusion of belonging
There are objects within the pre-existing hierarchies of language, law, and history that establish a shared meaning and define a collective identity through a communal network of signifiers within the pre-existing hierarchies of language, law, and history that establish a shared meaning and define a collective identity through a communal network of signifiers. shaped by a dominant narrative and institutions that sanction ways of thinking and ways of constituting knowledge that produce subjectivities and power relations through the structure and system of language
We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
1835 C.E.
Bharatiya Nagarik Surakhsha Sanhita, 2023 [Indian Citizen's Protection Code, 2023]
Section 144. (1) If any person having sufficient means neglects or refuses to maintain—
(a) his wife, unable to maintain herself; or
(b) his legitimate or illegitimate child, whether married or not, unable to maintain itself; or
(c) his legitimate or illegitimate child (not being a married daughter) who has
attained majority, where such child is, by reason of any physical or mental abnormality or injury unable to maintain itself; or
(d) his father or mother, unable to maintain himself or herself, a Magistrate of the first class may, upon proof of such neglect or refusal, order such person to make a monthly allowance for the maintenance of his wife or such child, father or mother, at such monthly rate as such Magistrate thinks fit and to pay the same to such person as the Magistrate may from time to time direct:
Provided that the Magistrate may order the father of a female child referred to in clause (b) to make such allowance, until she attains her majority, if the Magistrate is satisfied that the husband of such female child, if married, is not possessed of sufficient means:
Provided further that the Magistrate may, during the pendency of the proceeding regarding monthly allowance for the maintenance under this sub section, order such person to make a monthly allowance for the interim maintenance of his wife or such child, father or mother, and the expenses of such proceeding which the Magistrate considers reasonable, and to pay the same to such person as the Magistrate may from time to time direct:
Provided also that an application for the monthly allowance for the interim maintenance and expenses of proceeding under the second proviso shall, as far as possible, be disposed of within sixty days from the date of the service of notice of the application to such person.
Explanation.—For the purposes of this Chapter, "wife" includes a woman who has been divorced by, or has obtained a divorce from, her husband and has not remarried.
2025. All Rights Reserved.
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A lot went on here, but until the invention of heliography - a process that accurately reproduced visual material reality in a tangible form - in 1826, all the documented records remain in the form of texts defined by the structures of language.
civilisation
colonisation
c. 4031 M.A. Formation of protolith of the oldest known rock (Acasta Gneiss)
c. 1820-1850s C.E. Romanticism and Victorian Prosperity. Europe celebrates industrial progress, technological marvels, and emotional depth in art, ignoring the human and material cost borne by the colonies.
1858 C.E. British Raj is established over India
1813 C.E.: Charter Act (Opening India to British trade; de-industrialisation begins)
c. 1760-1840 C.E.: The Industrial Revolution (UK: Water frame, power loom, steam engine)
1848 C.E.: Revolutions across Europe; Marx and Engels publish The Communist Manifesto
1857 C.E.: First Indian Revolt (End of Company rule, transfer to the Crown)
1826 C.E. First known photograph is produced through heliography - View from the window at Le Gras
colonisation
1860 C.E. Indian Penal Code is enacted by the British Parliament
1876-78 & 1896-97 C.E.: Great Famines. Millions die, often exacerbated by British policies that prioritised grain exports (commodity production for the core) over local food security.
1880-1914 C.E.: The New Imperialism/Era of Finance Capital (Scramble for Africa; US/German industrial rise).
1877 C.E.: Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India at a lavish Delhi Durbar, symbolising total subjugation.
1905 C.E.: Partition of Bengal; Swadeshi Movement (Rise of militant, bourgeois nationalism).
1914-1918 C.E.: First World War (the war to end all wars). Over 1.3 million Indian troops fight for the British Empire in WWI.
1860-1880 C.E.: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Focus on light, leisure, urban life, and the subjective perception of the prosperous European metropolis.
1863 C.E. Olympia by Eduard Manet
1917 C.E. Fountain by Marcel Duchamp
1939-1945 C.E.: Second World War. First time the atomic bomb is used against civil population (Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Japan).
1943 C.E.: Bengal Famine. 2-3 million people die while the colonial government prioritises war supplies.
1947 C.E.: Indian Independence and Partition. The political transfer of power, but the economic base remains geared towards global capitalism; the trauma of communal division pre and post partition of India.
1947 C.E.: The Cold War (Bipolar world system; rise of State Socialism; Decolonisation)
1907-1914 C.E.: Cubism . European artists, often inspired by stolen/appropriated African tribal art (primitive art), begin to fragment the traditional European perspective.
1950 C.E.: Constitution of India is enacted.
modernisation
consumer becomes producer.
modernisation
globalisation
globalisation
reglobalisation
consumer becomes commodity.
pre-modernism
c. 4600 M.A. to c. 1860 C.E.
modernism
c. 1860 C.E. to c. 1960 C.E.
postmodernism
c. 1960 C.E. to c. 2010 C.E.
re://modernism
c. 2010 C.E. to present day
re: collective memory
परम्परा
अनुशासन
प्रतिष्ठा
ஒரே தேசம், ஒரே தனித்துவம்
illusion of being
shaped by a dominant narrative and institutions that sanction ways of thinking and ways of constituting knowledge that produce subjectivities and power relations through the structure and system of language. shaped by a dominant narrative and institutions that sanction ways of thinking and ways of constituting knowledge that produce subjectivities and power relations through the structure of language shaped by a dominant narrative and institutions that sanction ways of thinking and ways of constituting knowledge that produce subjectivities and power relations through the structure and system of language
