Today, free will is compromised not through the limiting of freedom, but by the manipulation of will. Byung-Chul Han’s Psychololitics asserts that our devices and platforms are objects of control but their power is not asserted through force. Instead, they operate on a pre-reflexive level in the psyche to steer desire itself.

In the language of technology, the contemporary human is reduced to the label of “user”. The sculpture User began as a cast hand which was then broken, rigged, and made to doom-scroll.