Expected to be Delivered Tonight

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2021

1080p

1minute 4 seconds

Digital Laser printing on office paper

 

A bondage play with the delivery guy, where the consumer leads the demand (dominant). The program gives instructions, and the bondage play with the delivery guy, is where the consumer leads the demand (dominant), the program gives instructions, the delivery guy completes the task (submissive), comfort, efficiency, intelligence, programming, danger, voluntary and involuntary, all in one delivery.

 

Every time we shop online, it’s like a bondage play with the delivery person.

Online shopping gives consumers a thrill that can come from the excitement of getting items that are hard to buy in physical stores, from making up for the lack of time to shop offline, and from the lower-than-usual discounts. Sometimes we buy items for our bedrooms, sometimes we buy kitchenware for our kitchens, and online shopping is getting closer and closer to our lives, giving us more shopping options and making our lives more comfortable and efficient.

 

Online shopping also gives the delivery person a sense of pleasure, sometimes from the salary (there are huge differences in the income of couriers between different cities and regions, some couriers have a very significant income. ) Sometimes it comes from the freedom of not having to sit in an office, and sometimes it comes from the sense of release of getting a job because it is usually a job that is not hard to get.

 

But while both parties reap the pleasure, the potential dangers are hidden throughout the process. Just like in bondage play and other S&M play, sometimes the pursuit of extreme pleasure can cause unintentional injuries due to too much. Just like in the choking play, the extreme choking pleasure can cause death by suffocation if it is too intense. In our relationship with the delivery person, this danger comes from our pursuit of extreme delivery speed. This limit, the fastest speed should be safe. But the danger factor arises when procedural algorithms are inserted into the entire delivery process. It is true that it can give the estimated delivery time on a map based on data algorithms. But it cannot calculate the instability of this, such as a traffic problem, during the delivery period, the delivery workers are likely to be stuck in traffic or unable to park near the delivery place, but they still need to deliver according to the time given by the algorithm when facing these problems, otherwise, they may incur a series of penalties for delayed delivery. So speeding, running red lights, illegal parking, and a series of other unsafe driving behaviors have become a solution to this problem. Although the courier is not a machine, they will also feel tired and sick, but they have to pursue the delivery time given by the program like a machine no matter what the situation is, which is a kind of human chasing for the speed given by the program. The courier bears the risk of accidents, but also reaps the pleasure, like a submissive in bondage play and S&M play, adding a touch of danger and unease to the seductive online shopping process.

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