Artist's Statment: Neoliberal Truisms [Analog]

 Emma Johnson, HAPPINESS IS CAPITALISM in Neoliberal Truisms, 2025-2026. Ink on paper (Letterpress). 3.5 x 5 in.

Emma Johnson X GenAI, THE INVISIBLE HAND LEAVES VISIBLE SCARS in Neoliberal Truisms, 2025-2026. Ink on paper (Letterpress). 3.5 x 5 in.

Emma Johnson X GenAI, AUSTERITY IS DISCIPLINE FOR THE POOR in Neoliberal Truisms, 2025-2026. Ink on paper (Letterpress). 3.5 x 5 in.

Emma Johnson X GenAI, VISIBILITY IS NOT POWER in Neoliberal Truisms, 2025-2026. Ink on paper (Letterpress). 3.5 x 5 in.

Emma Johnson, AMBITION IS QUEEN in Neoliberal Truisms, 2025-2026. Ink on paper (Letterpress). 3.5 x 5 in.

Emma Johnson X GenAI, THE MARKET DOESN’T LOVE YOU BACK in Neoliberal Truisms, 2025-2026. Ink on paper (Letterpress). 3.5 x 5 in.

Emma Johnson X GenAI, CONSUME HOPE / DENY NEED in Neoliberal Truisms, 2025-2026. Ink on paper (Letterpress). 3.5 x 5 in.

Emma Johnson X GenAI, FREEDOM LOOKS LIKE DESIRE in Neoliberal Truisms, 2025-2026. Ink on paper (Letterpress). 3.5 x 5 in.

Emma Johnson X GenAI, TRUTH IS OUTSOURCED in Neoliberal Truisms, 2025-2026. Ink on paper (Letterpress). 3.5 x 5 in.

Emma Johnson X GenAI, DEREGULATION IS WAR in Neoliberal Truisms, 2025-2026. Ink on paper (Letterpress). 3.5 x 5 in.

Emma Johnson X GenAI, THE GAZE ALWAYS DEMANDS PERFORMANCE in Neoliberal Truisms, 2025-2026. Ink on paper (Letterpress). 3.5 x 5 in.

Emma Johnson X GenAI, CHOICE IS A SPECTACLE in Neoliberal Truisms, 2025-2026. Ink on paper (Letterpress). 3.5 x 5 in.

Emma Johnson X GenAI, YOUR HOPE IS COLLATERAL in Neoliberal Truisms, 2025-2026. Ink on paper (Letterpress). 3.5 x 5 in.

Emma Johnson X GenAI, THE FUTURE IS FEMALE, THE PROFITS ARE MALE in Neoliberal Truisms, 2025-2026. Ink on paper (Letterpress). 3.5 x 5 in.

M. René Johnson X Emma Johnson, WE ARE LIVING IN A VIRTUAL WORLD, AND I AM A VIRTUAL GIRL in Neoliberal Truisms, 2025-2026. Ink on paper (Letterpress). 3.5 x 5 in.

M. René Johnson X Emma Johnson, IN CRYPTOCURRENCY WE TRUST in Neoliberal Truisms, 2025-2026. Ink on paper (Letterpress). 3.5 x 5 in.

99 Neoliberal Truisms

1. Happiness is capitalism
2. Drones are more cost effective than diplomacy
3. Death is efficient
4. Ambition is expected
5. Burning the candle at both ends gets the job done quicker
6. Hustle is the new obedience
7. The girlboss serves the boss
8. Debt is the new citizenship
9. If everything is for sale, your body is too
10. Postfeminism is icing on the cake
11. Choice is a spectacle.
12. Austerity is discipline for the poor
13. Your body is an economic unit
14. Care is not profitable
15. You are what you can afford
16. Individual responsibility is collective denial
17. Desperation drives innovation
18. You call it opportunity, they call it extraction
19. You mistake debt for possibility
20. You cannot strike if you never stop working
21. Your debt is their power
22. Deregulation is war
23. The market doesn’t love you back
24. Debt is a training regime
25. Everyone is a brand until proven otherwise
26. Empathy doesn’t scale
27. Success means you played the game right
28. Privatize gain, socialize loss
29. The market is holy, your body is profane
30. Dreams can trap you in reality
31. The market loves your silence
32. Compete or disappear
33. Eat. Pray. Spend.
34. Desire is repackaged as independence
35. Work defines your identity
36. The male gaze never retires
37. Decadence is everything
38. Luck is existential
39. Your desires have been outsourced
40. Choice is a privilege disguised as freedom
41. The future has been sold in advance
42. Consume hope / deny need
43. Competition demands your obedience
44. You are only as valuable as your productivity
45. The invisible hand leaves visible scars
46. Your insecurity is their strategy
47. Freedom to consume is not freedom to live
48. Love capital / fear welfare
49. You are the brand and the commodity
50. Winners write the contracts
51. Truth is outsourced
52. Your data is worth more than your vote
53. Profits hide inside your image
54. Deregulation is violence in slow motion
55. Buy power / sell rights
56. You are the advertisement and the product
57. The free market is never free
58. Your body is a marketplace
59. Markets devour democracy
60. Your suffering boosts quarterly growth
61. Your hope is collateral
62. Your freedom looks good in heels
63. Freedom looks like desire
64. Desire funds the economy
65. Patience is a virtue valued by those who exploit
66. You shop, they rule
67. Globalization means borders for people, not capital
68. Your desire has been outsourced
69. Ambition is queen
70. Liberation isn’t sold in pink
71. Your freedom is for sale
72. Debt can be a blessing in disguise
73. The public good is bad for business
74. Freedom comes with a price tag
75. Opportunity knocks twice if you’re rich enough
76. Own nothing / be everything
77. Repression sometimes pays off
78. The gaze always demands performance
79. To be seen is not to be free
80. The camera never blinks
81. Objectification is rebranded as choice
82. Decadence dictates morality
83. Liberation is individualized, privatized, monetized
84. Choice is a cage with polished bars
85. Invest like there’s no tomorrow
86. Crying over spilled oil is perfectly appropriate
87. The future is female, the profits are male
88. Optimism is a weapon against you
89. My milkshake does more than bring boys to the yard
90. What you sell is what watches you
91. Deregulation is war
92. This point in time is measurable in dollars
93. Genocide is the cost of doing business
94. Ambition has no ceiling
95. Solidarity doesn’t scale
96. Visibility is not power
97. Your future is collateral
98. We are living in a virtual world, and I am a virtual girl (NT by M. René Johnson)
99. In cryptocurrency we trust

NT by Emma Johnson: 1-5, 10, 30, 33, 35, 37-38, 65, 69, 72, 77, 82, 85-86, 89, 92-94

NT by EJ X GenAI: 6-9, 11-29, 31-32, 34, 36, 39-64, 65-68, 70-71, 73-74, 76, 78-81, 83-84, 87-88, 90-91, 95-97

NT by M. René Johnson: 98-99