What Is Safety Propaganda?

After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident. – J.G. Ballard

..the sense of a catastrophe perpetually invoked and avoided creates a rapture in whose depths horror and pleasure coincide... – Michel Leiris

The spectacle cannot be understood as an abuse of the world of vision, as a product of the techniques of mass dissemination of images. It is, rather, a Weltanschauung which has become actual, materially translated. It is a world vision which has become objectified. – Guy Debord

The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something beautiful, powerful, and wonderful as Hollywood films, and a criticism of the status quo. – Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Safety Propaganda is a collaborative platform hosted by writer and artist Adam Lehrer that will publish criticism, poetry, theory, art, fiction, photography and any creative production that dares to challenge and divert from normative ideology. We commit to publishing ideas that would be considered off limits in other venues. Real art, the art that can’t be absorbed back into a monitored algorithm, is met with widespread contempt and scorn. Iconoclasts, neurodivergents and free thinkers are hated as much now as they’ve ever been in modern history. Safety Propaganda is a space of dissent, of provocation, of taboo, of the abject, of the sublime, and of art in all its moral complexity and troubling character.

Safety Propaganda also has an audio misinformation wing, System of Systems by Safety Propaganda. You can listen to the podcast HERE

In addition to this web project, Safety Propaganda is also a burgeoning publishing imprint, with books and merchandise available at our store, and a record label. Safety Propaganda records has released albums by its house band Botched Chadification, Zac Davis and others.

Safety Propaganda works in counter intelligence, and is affiliated with the broader organization of the Counter Agency of the Avant Garde.

About Adam Lehrer

Adam Lehrer is a writer, critic, artist, and the co-host of the Systems of Systems podcast. Lehrer writes about contemporary art, horror fiction, experimental music, cult cinema, and political theory. He’s been published by Autre Magazine, American Greatness, Caesura, Gruppe, Numéro Berlin, The Quietus, Filthy Dreams, SSENSE, i-D, and more.

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