The Artist as a Revolutionary - A Carnation Press Manifesto
It has felt like the world is ending for the longest time. 2025 was in the top three warmest years on record, with temperatures rising an average of 1.44°C; data centres invade our cities and use up water while regions of rural communities are still without clean water; illegal dumping pollutes the countryside, inflicting disease on working-class populations.
Fascism is on the rise both globally and locally, with the 2022 and 2023 elections seeing significant strides made by the right-wing coalition in Malaysia. Activists and individuals are being detained en masse for exercising fundamental liberties. Malaysian youth are tired and dissatisfied, struggling to get jobs, buy houses, and survive in an increasingly hostile capitalist society. Many dream of migration as a way to escape the pressure and claustrophobic reality of late-stage capitalism. Individualism runs rampant, and loneliness swallows us all in our interlinked, hyperconnected, dystopic society.
In the face of a world falling apart, change begins.
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