Anarchism

ANARCHISM [ AN-ER-KIZ-UH M ]

“A DOCTRINE URGING THE ABOLITION OF GOVERNMENT OR GOVERNMENTAL RESTRAINT AS THE INDISPENSABLE CONDITION FOR FULL SOCIAL AND POLITICAL LIBERTY.”

“WHENEVER GOVERNMENT ASSUMES TO DELIVER US FROM THE TROUBLE OF THINKING FOR OURSELVES, THE ONLY CONSEQUENCES IT PRODUCES ARE THOSE OF TORPOR AND IMBECILITY", (GODWIN, 1779, 490). WILLIAM GODWIN WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDING THOUGHTS DURING THE ERA OF CLASSICAL ANARCHISM AND EXPLORED MANY AVENUES WITHIN THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM LIKE INSTITUTIONS AND ARISTOCRACY. FUNDAMENTALLY, ONE OF HIS MAIN PRINCIPLES THAT FELL UNDER THE IDEAS OF ANARCHISM WAS TO EXPAND KNOWLEDGE THROUGHOUT SOCIETY. THE NOTION WAS TO DECREASE IGNORANCE WHICH IN TIME WOULD WEAKEN AND EVENTUALLY OVERTHROW THE HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES AND POWERS.

THE SOCIAL CONDITIONING THAT THE GOVERNMENT IMPLEMENTS ON TO THE INDIVIDUAL HAS CREATED THE FOUNDATIONS THAT INFLUENCED ‘THE IDENTITY OF THE PHYSICAL’. THESE IDEAS ORIGINATE FROM OBSERVING HOW OUR GOVERNMENTS INFLUENCE OUR SOCIETY. THE COLLECTION AIMS TO GENERATE A PLATFORM TO DISCUSS AND GAIN CONSCIOUSNESS OVER THE LACK OF FREEDOM THE INDIVIDUAL HAS WITHIN SOCIETY THROUGH THEIR THOUGHTS AND MOVEMENTS. THE HAIR USED WITHIN THIS COLLECTION IS TO SHOW EMPOWERMENT AND INDIVIDUALISM OF THE SINGLE PERSON. THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAIR HAS BEEN USED TO EXPRESS POLITICAL VIEWPOINT, FREEDOM AND OPPRESSION. ALONG WITH THE HAIR, THE MILITARY SILHOUETTE IS A REMINDER OF OUR RANKED POSITION WITHIN SOCIETY.