When consumerism runs up against the environment, consumerism will, in the end, win.
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Capitalism only works in a society drunk on consumerism, and consumerism is unavoidably "anti-human" in the way you've defined the term here.
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In Quartz, the writer Alden Wicker has called the phenomenon of conscious consumerism "a lie": On its face, conscious consumerism is a morally righteous, bold movement.
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One of the places where trends in consumerism are seeing dramatic shifts is in Sweden — and there's a new movement closing in on the irresponsible nature of consumerism, according to an Aftonbladet report.
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Fidget spinners, weighted blankets and the rise of anxiety consumerism.
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It provides a compelling look at one cost of consumerism.
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Technology, consumerism, and violence are the cornerstones of the work.
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I practice conscious consumerism in most areas of my life.
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Once you strip the consumerism away, it's a great message.
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Industry and mindless consumerism intertwined to create our current state.
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It's all sort of tucked under this veil of consumerism.
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Would you describe your work as a comment on consumerism?
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Another theme of the book is the consequence of consumerism.
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All Americans would have incentives for consumerism and healthy behaviors.
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Consumerism in Pyongyang has become more socially acceptable and visible.
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Consumerism is both the condition and confine of his work.
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Consumerism is becoming an addiction; let's restrain ourselves, folks, please.
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We're taught to view consumerism and advertisements with skepticism today.
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It's a model of consumerism that depends on customers' transparency.
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"There are people who are minimalist or anti-consumerism," Gendreau said.
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The little kids are already familiar with these characters through consumerism.
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There's a lot of anti-consumerism subtext in Baskets as well.
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Amazon joins eBay as an online destination for random, dopey consumerism.
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But he hopes his art encourages people to reconsider their consumerism.
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We live in a world where consumerism really plays a part.
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Even in "The Graduate" they symbolised America's consumerism and moral emptiness.
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Ufological discourse has always been haunted by the specter of consumerism.
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Most notably among these systems is capitalism and its partner, consumerism.
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Conscious consumerism occurs when consumers align their wallets with their values.
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In a world of ruthless consumerism of emotional and cultural tolerance.
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"We're all just existing in this culture of consumerism," Singer says.
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I think people are way too quick to call consumerism evil.
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It's a metaphor for sex and love and consumerism or something.
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Everyone fights a daily uphill battle against the forces of consumerism.
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All too often, our culture broadly equates "environmentalism" with personal consumerism.
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Mr. Ayivi frames his participation in fashion as commentary on consumerism.
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Most of us are stuck on the hamster wheel of consumerism.
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Like film, fashion is made grubby by its association with consumerism.
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Nothing screams America more than good ol' fashioned consumerism, after all.
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Living small has come to signal environmental mindfulness and restrained consumerism.
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Empowerment of the brand will lead us to a better consumerism.
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"We wanted to make it about philanthropy," he added, not consumerism.
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Its spending habits are set to change the world of consumerism.
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You've got also a shift towards consumerism, which is helpful for us.
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Are you suggesting that American consumerism is a form of crowd control?
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He's a very optimistic capitalist, and very into his consumerism and philanthropy.
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He gleefully prompts viewers to consider notions of consumerism, identity, and appropriation.
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What is art, and what is merely consumerism disguised as self-expression?
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Skittish consumerism and ruthless competition have long underpinned the used-clothing trade.
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"This consumerism mindset starts at Christmastime," Wyatt says, with a southern drawl.
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Francis decried a modern escapism into consumerism and computers that isolates people.
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Voting is a lot like consumerism: You get what you pay for.
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In return for this indentured consumerism, you get a free movie ticket.
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Black Friday shopping isn't always based in naked, shameless excesses of consumerism.
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The once aspirational lifestyle now feels like just another form of consumerism.
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I think that consumerism, basically what it is is a cute dystopia.
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"It's really a recognition of the vicious cycle of consumerism," Socci says.
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The story is a not-so-subtle critique of consumerism run amok.
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How does online consumerism like shopping and ordering food delivery differ there?
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Many of the text's witty takedowns of capitalism and consumerism still resonate.
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Those of us consumed by consumerism may have difficulty understanding Ms. Morano.
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Baudrillard began his career studying the impact of consumerism on everyday life.
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"Consumerism is here to stay in the health-care industry," Wojczynski says.
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We're still figuring out the proper balance between criticism, consumerism, and creation.
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He was furious at consumerism, capitalism, governments, scientists, economists and all war-makers.
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And, of course, the kind of rampant consumerism we all know and love.
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Warby Parker is an example of a brand that offers charity through consumerism.
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We have developed a more western lifestyle, based on individualistic logic and consumerism.
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No one exemplifies the glossy consumerism paradise of the aughts like Paris Hilton.
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She's not running an ethical consumerism nonprofit, after all; she's running for president.
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Mindful consumerism is how we can turn business into a force for good.
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We will defend them against the background of laicisation and a deepening consumerism.
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Cuba will likely try to keep advertising low-key and consumerism in check.
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That and Olympic-level vanity and consumerism, so it really all ties together.
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There's some movement arising that is suspicious of consumerism but is not socialist.
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But I'm hardly the first economist to moan about out-of-control consumerism.
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"All too often, our culture broadly equates 'environmentalism' with personal consumerism," Hegler wrote.
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What began as a small push to consumerism has become a full rush.
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"Consumerism in healthcare is here to stay," CVS Chief Executive Larry Menlo said.
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Eating there would run counter to my own ethos of conscious consumerism, too.
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At its worst, this translates into consumerism and fills oceans with plastic detritus.
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An HBO documentary spotlights the role of art in the age of consumerism.
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Our religion is consumerism and Trump is a patron saint of that religion.
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Abstaining from consumerism is evidence of piety, restraint, and dedication to the cause.
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However, this once vibrant hallmark of American consumerism is in danger of extinction.
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Kidding aside, this is not to be dismissed as support for empty consumerism.
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The protest against rampant consumerism was the brainchild of Canadian artist Ted Dave.
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It's enough to make the most wasteful among us feel good about consumerism.
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Firstly, there's Kim Kardashian, the foremost emblem of American consumerism, wearing a Communist symbol.
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Boycotts are employed the world over, and not all of them are about consumerism.
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It's that time of year again: Amazon's annual celebration of consumerism called Prime Day.
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As an act of emotional manipulation in the service of consumerism, it is genius.
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" Rachel Roy, fashion designer and U.N. Champion for Innovation: "1 Big thing = compassionate consumerism.
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He doesn't buy into mass consumerism, yet his hair is perfectly styled, just so.
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Romero used his zombie films comment on society, satirizing everything from consumerism to politics.
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The dawn of modern consumerism began in the 1940s, not even a century ago.
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Maybe it's crass consumerism — or a comment on how far we've sunk as society.
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One aspect of the FIRE movement that appealed to me was its anti-consumerism.
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There's more than one way to use anti-consumerism to fuel an ad campaign.
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"Greta has also made me think a lot about consumerism," she told the crowd.
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Storefront window displays typically reflect the dreams and desires of consumerism and late capitalism.
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When we look at our economic system, consumerism is a doomed-to-fail philosophy.
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We arrive at a time where the conscious consumerism has fallen by the wayside.
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America, once the hope of the world, has been corrupted by greed and consumerism.
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Meanwhile, some young Chinese shoppers seem less enthused this year about celebrating manic consumerism.
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It sounds terrible, but the nonstop onslaught of commercials and consumerism is just nauseating.
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The Prius has become a public emblem of "ecopiety" as practiced through green consumerism.
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It's also a model of consumerism that makes our traditional idea of trust irrelevant.
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He trumpeted trade and consumerism in language that anticipated the 1990s boosters of globalization.
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"Consumerism is destroying our planet," Extinction Rebellion, an environmental group, said on social media.
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It must be about injecting free market forces and consumerism into the health system.
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Ad blocking, however, may serve as a good salvo in the war against consumerism.
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Actually, the trickle-down from female leadership to female consumerism is well under way.
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We all participate in consumerism, but it's indelicate to be so brazen about enjoying it.
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"In a way, this talks about issues dealing with the environment and consumerism," he says.
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I also see themes of vanity and consumerism, plus maybe some jabs at social media.
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It plays right into the consumerism of not only America, but all around the world.
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Now, they must disentangle and consumerism must lead industry out of planetary and ethical degradation.
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And isn't that what consumerism, and life come to think of it, is all about?
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It's hard not to indulge in a little bit of consumerism every now and again.
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Guston and Steinberg are unclassifiable figures who satirized political figures, artists, poseurs, and American consumerism.
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"Our current form of consumerism — buying items and discarding them — is not sustainable," Moore says.
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That's a real clear way of translating for kids this [feeling of] wrestling with consumerism.
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The first skewers capitalism, the second consumerism and religion, and the third is about colonialism.
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Just to see if it even changes the way I felt about consumerism or music.
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Less obvious is the link between the region's meth appetite and our society's voracious consumerism.
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Both brothers complained that the Palestinian Authority has promoted consumerism as a kind of opiate.
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Consumerism is Wheat's subject in this series and she presents her own take on it.
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Ms. Oliva describes the jewelry as "a kind of political performance art" that opposes consumerism.
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You thought you could stop mass consumerism by pretending to cut off other men's balls?
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The unspoken theme pervading those shows was consumerism — a tacit endorsement of shopping and acquiring.
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But taking some time off from consumerism isn't going to make the financial markets collapse.
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Rampant consumerism certainly plays a role in clutter, but it is not the only culprit.
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All the artist appropriate aspects of consumerism and elevate their materials into rarefied art objects.
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The basics of 1950s-oriented consumerism are under a positive threat from the younger generation.
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For Brody, the fish is a metaphor for being hooked on consumerism and convenience culture.
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People who hope to achieve financial independence are generally more balanced in their attitudes about consumerism.
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The boundaries around a firm idea of oneself have been diffused by mass marketing and consumerism.
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The downside of my job is that I'm contributing to the mass consumerism side of Christmas.
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Millions, meanwhile, have rallied behind his presidential campaign, cheering his jeremiads against consumerism and political corruption.
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But if shameless consumerism was the disease, then thoughtful 'investment' shopping, I understood, was the cure.
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I feel like I'm walking in an Eroski Supermarket, and there's so much consumerism going on.
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With that in mind, people have become aware of their responsibility to buy into conscious consumerism.
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Capitalism and consumerism have become the epitome of perpetuating systems that adversely turn our species parasitic.
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When mindless consumption is traded for mindful consumerism, we create ethics where there previously were none.
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Since consumerism has become more and more intertwined with our political identities, it's not entirely unthinkable.
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Seeing people reject consumerism turned me against money entirely, and I took it to an extreme.
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Instead of encouraging consumerism, they could focus on educating their prospects into being responsible home buyers.
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I've been inside them—they are grim, soulless places; the barracks on the frontlines of consumerism.
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Orange became ubiquitous in Mexico's post-NAFTA, neoliberal '90s and, for Smith, came to represent consumerism.
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" Oneslutriot doesn't just preach anti-capitalism, she lives it, saying, " I consider myself free from consumerism.
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She uses herself as a "case," a person who has been conditioned by advertising and consumerism.
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At its heart, Burning Man embraced anti-consumerism and an ethos that embraced radical self-expression.
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These photographs, for Chanel, Revlon and more, provide an elegant window onto postwar consumerism and celebrity.
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And Black Friday will kick off not just mass consumerism every year, but also mass victimization.
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You will not wait in line or talk to a person; it is pure, depersonalized consumerism.
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On Black Friday, some Twitter users voiced their disdain for rampant consumerism under the hashtag #BuyNothingDay.
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Ms. Rawson came of age in retail of the 1990s, when consumerism was at its peak.
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Still, some wonder whether buying metal ice-cube trays is just another example of conscious consumerism.
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The prophets are disciples of Vogt, who believed we need to reject consumerism and conserve the environment.
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Fred is now a war veteran and questioning his own worth in a civilization obsessed with consumerism.
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It is just that, far from being anti-capitalist, they involve a confident, cheerful sort of consumerism.
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Over the years, the "Egg Tart Effect" has become a classic case study for Taiwanese consumerism culture.
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We need to learn a lesson about needless consumerism from this auto repair shop in Gdansk, Poland.
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Oliver James's "Affluenza" and Barry Schwartz's "The Paradox of Choice" railed against rampant consumerism a decade ago.
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What makes the "basic witch" different from earlier breeds of witches is her spiritual commitment to consumerism.
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Rather than a critique of teenage consumerism or selfie culture, though, it's an expression of female community.
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It is anxiety-inducing in a manner indistinguishable from other forms of consumerism, not revolutionary at all.
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However, the grace of ancient traditions was widespread enough throughout Bali to offset noisy reminders of consumerism.
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The piece talks about consumerism and how all of these things are related since everything is interconnected.
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It's kinda based around consumerism and the state of the country that we live in, and fear.
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I spoke with Be about the relationship between death aversion, consumerism, and the destruction of our planet.
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Here we are again: Mildly annoyed by the obvious consumerism, but totally in love with the deals.
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If they ever questioned the numbing consumerism that dictates their aspirations, they are deaf to it now.
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"We wanted to turn consumerism on its head," said Josie Naughton, the chief executive of Help Refugees.
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"In my current business, I'm building a startup that is all about reinventing consumerism," he told me.
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What will survive and what will die if Amazon becomes the most common form of Australian consumerism?
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Like other Pop artists of his generation, Mr. Lueg focused on mass media, popular culture and consumerism.
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And there are other reasons to watch the series, like its bravura direction and critiques of consumerism.
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But Jennifer Le Zotte noted that Kondo's let-it-go credo ignores clutter's evil American twin: consumerism.
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Injecting consumerism also allows drug and healthcare services companies to engage in pricing, based upon activation factors.
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Many believe the key to fighting the cycle of consumerism and waste is simply to buy less.
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Influencer culture, as we know it today, is inextricably tied to consumerism and the rise of technology.
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Conscious consumerism But Limpongpan believes that it is possible to make a profit and to do good.
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Activists have done their best to hamper Amazon and slow down consumerism on Black Friday in general.
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French society was embracing American-style consumerism and pop culture with the passion of the newly converted.
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Brands and consumerism were the straight white patriarchy, whereas queerness was a radical stance against these forces.
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For Benjamin, human ingenuity and sensory appetite exceeds the surface consumerism and somnambulism of daily city life.
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If consumerism has expanded from designer clothes and fancy cars to include museum visits, we all lose.
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Essentially, the goal is to fill the void in their broken hearts with a heaping helping of consumerism.
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Our own consumerism and corporate loyalty is the closest thing some see as a way of expressing faith.
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All of which means our unbridled consumerism hitches a ride on some of the dirtiest vehicles on earth.
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On Tuesday, a proposal to kneecap the informal complaint process at the agency sparked cries of anti-consumerism.
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Consumerism, of products and people, can feel ubiquitous to the extent where we almost no longer see it.
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More stridently political, they're nevertheless distinguished by that same puckish, sociable New York School ethos of cultural consumerism.
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Beyond consumerism, opportunities to enhance the world of medicine could open up with the embrace of homomorphic encryption.
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We grew up being surrounded and saturated by consumerism, these images—cereal boxes, you want all of this.
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The supremacy of King of Pops is also a parable of trends in consumerism and in urban living.
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The craze is about more than infantile consumerism: Hello Kitty has become an unlikely token of Taiwanese identity.
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When the mall opened, The New York Times called it "a 78-acre full-sensory smorgasbord of consumerism."
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When the family moved to the United States, Candace saw her mother turn to American consumerism for solace.
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But digital giants like Amazon redefined consumerism yet again, and malls fell out of favor with many shoppers.
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It's a gorgeous YouTube-era success story and a huge win for the idea of consumerism as play.
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For months, it sat in our cupboard, taking up space like a ridiculous metaphor for my pointless consumerism.
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Will Christmas in the States inspire a generosity of spirit or just a frenzied — and sometimes fatal — consumerism?
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The show features over 120 works from throughout his career that explore issues of war, consumerism, and politics.
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With childlike optimism and nostalgia, Mr. Arnold headed to the epicenter of seasonal cheer and consumerism, Fifth Avenue.
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While skewering its vacuity and vulgarity, Langsdorf captures the sensuous allure of confident, over-the-top American consumerism.
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Does its ephemeral nature, its roots in consumerism, frivolity and (sometimes) vulgarity, preclude it from achieving such transcendence?
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In countries around the world, people live their lives unencumbered by social media, American consumerism and Donald Trump.
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The sunny logic of consumerism can veer, without warning, into malignancy — white supremacy, for instance, or apocalyptic Christianity.
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You can see it as the next logical step in the evolution of what's sometimes called political consumerism.
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It's a beautiful project that captures the desolation of the desert, Americana, and reflects on consumerism and waste.
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For a comfortable retirement, he says choosing the "simple life" over consumerism and being debt-free are key.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Christmas in Hong Kong is usually a snow-themed celebration of consumerism.
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Besides unbridled consumerism, Americans love nothing more than seeing a bully like Pecker get kicked in the groin.
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Entropy, that unpleasant byproduct of consumerism, has been a subject of reality TV almost since that genre's genesis.
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The artist takes into account classic arts while dipping his toe into an artist favorite point of meditation: consumerism.
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Conscious consumerism is here to stay, and the success of brands like Patagonia is a testament to the fact.
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Conscious consumerism drives at that very point, particularly when it comes to "voting" for sustainability and humane working conditions.
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And as such, conscious consumerism can deliver unearned complacency, house-on-fire calm akin to "This Is Fine" dog.
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In more words, whether or not consumer activism and conscious consumerism "work" depends, really, on the definition of success.
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Let's take Secret Santa—a ritual gift-giving exercise that has much more to do with consumerism than religion.
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It wasn't just the smog and the poverty, the consumerism, the debt, and the shop-till-you-drop ethos.
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Prime Day draws you in, not just to Amazon Prime membership but to a whole world of seamless consumerism.
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"It's about what we're willing to live with and what sacrifices we're willing to make around consumerism," they explained.
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The day was created in response to the spike in consumerism following Thanksgiving (think Black Friday and Cyber Monday).
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"Probably." Of course, many great cities have seen their former bohemian quarters transformed by inflated property prices and consumerism.
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This leads us to think it's finally time to put a nail in the coffin of Valentine's Day consumerism.
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Luckily, there are some great accessories that play nice with Apple (and can satisfy your consumerism itch.) Better yet?
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Toyko's neon lights have become a sort of short-hand for the consumerism and futurism that the city embodied.
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It takes place between a country run amok with consumerism and radioactive wastelands where feral hamsters roam the countryside.
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The latest temple to consumerism, Garden City, just off a new eight-lane motorway, opened in May last year.
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Foreign investment, allowed by the current moderate government, has given the country's traditional women a glimpse of global consumerism.
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These days, the environmental consequences of consumerism are more visible than ever, which can make holiday shopping seem excessive.
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As a center of American consumerism and entertainment, American Dream seems like it will be worthy of its name.
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Fonda added that she grew up in a time when "consumerism didn't have such a strangle-hold over" her.
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He recognizes that multiple factors contribute to changes in birthrates, including consumerism and workaholism, which the American right celebrates.
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The utopias of desire make little sense in a world overrun by cheap entertainment, unbridled consumerism and narcissistic behavior.
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The paintings could be viewed both as critiques of modern consumerism and as glimpses into the collective American consciousness.
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Tom Sachs did it in the late 1990s when he used luxury brand signifiers to explore consumerism and branding.
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"Not across the board," argues Doug Stephens, an author and business adviser on the future of retail and consumerism.
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I first discovered the power of "conscious consumerism" in 2013, when I met former sex trafficking victims in India.
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"Holidays on Ice," written largely before his Ira Glass-adjacent fame, pokes fun at holiday-season consumerism and oneupmanship.
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When they went back home to their families, they packed their suitcases with gifts, objects of consumerism and foreignness.
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Its stand against animal testing and for ethical consumerism was novel and exciting 40 years ago, especially to younger shoppers.
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"It's surely a post modern expression of the never ending cycle of consumerism society is suffering," reportedly reads one comment.
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Consumerism was matched by an explosion in mass media as television grew from a novelty into an overwhelming cultural force.
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And he appeals to metropolitan, white-collar voters who are worried about green issues, consumerism and the future of work.
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"Consumerism, man," he says, putting it back after his scanner told him it wasn't worth it, even at half off.
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Also, the public is consistently told that in order to participate in our culture, they should be engaging in consumerism.
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That's a great idea, perhaps not practical (who pays in cash?), but a clever mashup of terrorist plots with consumerism.
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If a regular mall is a temple to consumerism, CES is the holiest shrine, the source of all consumable creation.
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I am sure on some meta scale consumerism is bad but we are all making these choices of buying stuff.
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Alas, there are many, many other ways that commentary on consumerism could've (and should've) been parlayed onto a T shirt...
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The base drivers of capitalism strip away the complexities of our personalities and pulp them in the name of consumerism.
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Growing inequality and climate change are fueling a disdain for conspicuous consumerism, Mr. Nicodemus said from his home in Montana.
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Key tenets of the camp include growing and raising food, reducing consumption, and disengaging from a vicious cycle of consumerism.
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And Ellis used the vivid killings in American Psycho to respond to what he saw as an increasingly dehumanizing consumerism.
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I also ordered myself a pair of Allbirds, all in the name of research (and maybe a bit of consumerism).
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Born in 1966, his thoughtful and politically conscious work is steeped in Pop Art and issues like consumerism and identity.
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That may seem counterintuitive for a clothing designer, but given her focus on sustainability and conscious consumerism, it makes sense.
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Young people may have a part in the gentrification process because of consumerism and desire for the coolest, trendiest shit.
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In doing so, viewers are asked to contemplate today's consumerism—its impact and evolution—through the lens of contemporary art.
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Labor scholars have suggested that a boom of American consumerism in the 1970s and 1980s required more hours of work.
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It also made the hunger for fresh talent onstage — long a trope of jazz consumerism — seem more apt, less despairing.
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"The connection between ethical consumerism and shit-hits-the-fan survivalism is where our interests are right now," he said.
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Their main concern was different from today's: unbridled economic growth and consumerism would, they warned, swiftly exhaust the world's resources.
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When you're in a 'normal' size body, there's all this sexuality and fashion and consumerism that gets put on it.
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Timms thought that after the consumerism of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, there should be a day to give back.
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Rather than advocate an ascetic renunciation of faux-feminist consumerism, Filipovic argues that women should pursue their right to happiness.
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John Michael Hogue, a 23-year-old from Chicago, felt conflicted by consumerism, so he took a leap of faith.
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It's just one of the colors throughout history that tell a rich story of class, politics, consumerism and self-expression.
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Retail remains king, but Americans concerned about climate change and consumerism are continuing to have an impact on shopping habits.
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Though simply buying less seems an obvious solution to our crisis of consumerism, it simply doesn't reflect our current reality.
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Since then, wellness consumerism has moved further toward the fringes of logic, and the Goop empire has expanded in influence.
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"Ethical consumerism is here to stay, and it has significant influence over the shopping decisions made by millennials," the report reads.
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For Jacqueline Mak, whose collages engage themes such as consumerism, objectification, and body politics, this translates to an NSFW treasure trove.
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Season 3 harbors a quiet obsession with America's prevailing economic system and the consumerism it breeds, as well as the corruption.
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The worst thing about the holidays isn't the stress, the consumerism, or even Aunt Suzanne's weird low-fat gluten-free desserts.
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The beauty comes from the love, but the ugliness comes in the form of consumerism being a core element of it.
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It's hard news to swallow, but our late-capitalist culture of immediate gratification, convenience and hyper-consumerism is ruining the planet.
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In the '50s, we began the culture of consumerism, of having consumer packaged goods your way, prepared foods and all that.
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Because he is well known, Kraft's arrest has moved the needle toward the normalization of commercial sex consumerism, and thereby legalization.
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"It's time for us as a company to address the issue of consumerism and do it head on," the ad read.
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ET and runs through midnight Tuesday -- a carnival of American consumerism that promises more than a million deals around the world.
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But we know that visibility also takes a toll, which why it is important that visibility extend beyond celebrity or consumerism.
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And this is where my too-young obsession with the system began, and where I got my first taste of consumerism.
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In Pixar's WALL-E, the Axiom starliner built by Buy n Large corporation offers a more light-hearted commentary on consumerism.
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In a world destructively obsessed with consumerism, we should challenge ourselves to look past trite capitalist models of art and creation.
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Their distinctly American consumerism appears bittersweet and courageous, a display of affection for a country which had never returned the favor.
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Also, as a journalist who covers technology and consumerism, I was just curious what could possibly be the point of this.
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The rise of fast fashion (fueled by the rise of consumerism) has given way to massive amounts of pollution and waste.
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One of an edition of three, this all-enveloping nightmare of 21st century consumerism was presented by the Paris-based DSLcollection.
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Deftly preserving the tension between easy-access pop culture and luxury consumerism — her fanciest containers now fetch $6,000 and up — Mrs.
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Consumerism treats people as mere selves — as shallow creatures concerned merely with the experience of pleasure and the acquisition of stuff.
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And about Alexander Payne's "Downsizing," a genial, barbed parable of consumerism, environmental crisis and social inequality disguised as a dystopian farce.
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The reality is that there's not such a neat line between Bauhaus and the present trends of consumerism, construction and design.
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Despite Katamari's dream-like, absurdist aesthetic, Takahashi offered a serious-minded meditation on consumerism and its impact on Earth's planetary health.
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More than getting customers to do what you ask — engagement is about humanizing health consumerism relationships and empowering personal healthcare responsibility.
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Organization and tidying have their time and place, but there is joy in consumerism, and Kondo is clearly embracing that, too.
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The truth is that Trump's base should be offended by the assumptions about their consumerism made by rich people in power.
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Dead malls are perhaps one of the most poetic illustrations of the limits of capitalism and the U.S.'s insatiable consumerism.
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They have a lot to say about modern culture, about what's wrong with society, and about the corrupting influence of consumerism.
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His adages about frugality and saving money are woven into American thought, even if they are often at odds with American consumerism.
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Clearly, this has made some powerful and privileged people uncomfortable, so much so that they are misrepresenting climate activism as anti-consumerism.
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Ms Greenfield sees the financial crisis as a watershed moment, exposing the economic forces that allowed such unchecked indulgence and rampant consumerism.
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The worst reviewed genre is just the latest iteration of the frivolous consumerism that's long been a staple of the platform's trends.
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JFK is the main gateway to the world's capital of consumerism, yet scarcely any retail therapy is available to treat travellers' boredom.
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The project is not intended to promote cannibalism, but address global issues such as lack of resources, overpopulation, and issues around consumerism.
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Instead of a not-so-veiled attack on consumerism, his movie would be more of a take on post-tragedy community building.
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It was Romero who popularized the idea of zombies as a commentary on American consumerism in 1984's Dawn of the Dead.
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Under Kim, North Korea has seen a rise in private markets and growing consumerism, but it faces tight political and economic control.
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"At first, the consumerism, materialism, and Reaganomics, that '80s theme of America on steroids, came through most strongly," he said to Deadline.
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As Mexico City's central market for illegal merchandise, Tepito offers miracles of consumerism, afternoons of respite from the grind of economic exclusion.
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Descriptions of melting glaciers and rampant erosion underscore the terrifying prospects of climate change—the result of a consumerism driven by greed.
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In addition to population control and a national mobilization effort, according to the Berkeley City Council, residents should avoid "consumerism" and "narcissism."
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Putting aside these costly services of all sorts, however, the more dangerous development in campus consumerism has taken place in the classroom.
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One begins to wonder where the picture, and its all-too-relevant themes of consumerism and class anxiety run amok, will land.
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But consumer habits, especially among younger Chinese, are changing — thanks partly to growing consumerism and partly to the development of financial technology.
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But rather than feeling like we are giving into consumerism, we feel like we're making an actual difference for people in need.
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Intently replaces aspiration-mongering and health-shaming in service of consumerism with... aspiration-mongering and health-shaming as an end unto itself.
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In 2008, one journalist called it "reminiscent of an Orwellian dystopia" for its security features, arguing that it encouraged consumerism and cheating.
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If Christmas reflects how we feel about buying stuff, then how do our post-1970s Christmases reflect our evolving feelings about consumerism?
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That brings me back to Brave New World and other dystopian literature, and how the assembly line changed how we view consumerism.
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But, this is called consumerism and a lot of people believe that they are happy because they possess those kind of things.
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Surrealism and Pop Art were concerned with mass production, consumerism and the psychic impact of living in a world flooded with objects.
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The other important theme in Ernaux's memoir is how we've been gradually led, guilt-free, into greater and greater levels of consumerism.
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My hope is that in tasting the full flavors of consumerism — its joy and heartache — Rosie will eventually find her own wisdom.
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It acted as a how-to guide for consumption and consumerism for many young men who had never had disposable income before.
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You know, if the spiritual essence of America is consumerism, which it credibly is, Jeff nailed the actual moment of spiritual precision.
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In this film, I present a world in which China's consumer aspirations are a parody of the excesses of American capitalist consumerism.
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Stanley looks at millionaires and finds seven habits that they have in common, including living below their means and rejecting traditional consumerism.
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Meanwhile, in France, activists staged protests against Amazon on Friday, denouncing the rampant consumerism typified by the annual Black Friday shopping frenzy.
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PARELES Here's a new holiday ditty in a Randy Newman mode, sending up Christmastime consumerism with a loving pat on the head.
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The resulting assemblages — free-standing or suspended, cascading down walls, spilling across floors — colonized gallery space the way consumerism swamped the globe.
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Together, the artworks provide a creative yet critical discussion of pressing issues like environmental destruction, consumerism, and the effects of mass production.
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Despite the exhibition's title, I read neither the collages nor the sculpture as directly addressing consumerism, industrial overproduction, or waste disposal crises.
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So the culture industry peddles an ideology that supports the prevailing power structure — in the case of America, that ideology was consumerism.
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Certainly sex and consumerism are no strange bedfellows, but in Rhoades's work, the relationship is rendered in an ad hoc, haphazard, illogical form.
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In August, the ethical consumerism nonprofit Green America launched a "Skip the Slip, CVS" campaign, urging the company to change its receipt practices.
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Using Western techniques of public relations, the party reminds ordinary Chinese how everyone, thanks to mass consumerism, is having a jolly good time.
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For too long, companies have told us that we can wipe away our guilt for buying unethically made clothes through even more consumerism.
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I believe that, today, there is an increasingly dangerous obsession with consumerism—the past seems more like an obstacle to modernity and wealth.
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The latest of Greenfield's films on the not-so-subtleties of consumerism sheds light on beauty, gender, aging, and the commodification of appearance.
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The demise of the mall fascinates artist Claire Hentschker, however, and these abandoned hubs of consumerism inspired her new immersive video series Catacombs.
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They eschew European designer labels manufactured for consumerism in favor of local designers, many of whom have caught the spirit of the moment.
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People working in media are mostly middle-class types with the same interests, favouring consumerism, hedonism, libertarian individualism and unconditional Europeanism from Brussels.
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Taking part in crass consumerism by decorating your home with only the coolest furnishings (the Happy Home Academy can fuck right off, man).
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The press demeaned women who sought influence, and in Victoria's Secret stores and on the pages of Cosmo, consumerism masqueraded as female empowerment.
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His seamless hand-cut works mock consumerism and the Western cults of youth, beauty, and luxury, most often using imagery from vintage magazines.
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But it also touches on many other universal and timely subjects, like the spread of consumerism and the idea of blindly following authority.
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Many will choose ignorance is bliss when it comes to considering the ramifications of consumerism, but we have to be better than that.
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Kruger became known for her groundbreaking art, which wryly criticized consumerism, all while maintaining the same Futura Bold Oblique font and color scheme.
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There's no telling which ones, but as Amazon gets bigger, so will its carbon footprint—not to mention its influence on American consumerism.
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At thirty-eight, Abloh is technically a member of Generation X, but his career, and his success, tell the story of millennial consumerism.
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It is part of a movement of anti-consumerism, or the notion of cherishing what you have rather than incessantly buying new stuff.
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Shana Moulton's hyperbolic self, Cynthia, is an alter-ego obsessed with consumerism and looking for spirituality within the banality of every-day commodities.
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Yet economists continually blame consumerism and tactics of credit card companies rather than addressing the cause: a fundamental void in our education system.
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Perhaps most of all, they were fascinated by what the culture's growing consumerism was doing to people's minds, and to art in particular.
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"They're just so sensuous," she says of the hot dogs' anthropomorphic forms, which humorously suggest the ties between desire, consumerism, food and sex.
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There's a reason Apple offers iPhones in a rainbow of colors; the psychological impact color has on consumerism is a very real phenomena.
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Woven into sagas of love and betrayal, there is a push and pull between nationalism and religion, between historical tradition and modern consumerism.
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Feature Far from the stereotype of total economic isolation, the black market has brought a surprising degree of modernity and consumerism — for some.
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The mall-set "Dawn of the Dead" (on Saturday and in a 2727-D version on March 28110) sent up mindless yuppie consumerism.
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Efforts at ethical consumerism are not only small in scale relative to the overall problem, they in many cases won't work at all.
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Traditional holidays like Christmas have to deal with the spectre of consumerism and, in the FAQ, Buckley promotes handmade gifts over purchased ones.
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Related: Blackout Black Friday, Try Nature Instead How to Plate Your Food Like a Thanksgiving Artist Monopoly Money Sculptures Combine Consumerism with Creativity
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The dangerous new trend of fretting about the details of green consumerism is causing people to miss the big picture The dangerous new trend of fretting about the details of green consumerism is causing people to miss the big picture A new book shines a light on what's at stake, as well as the intimate relationship between local people and wildlife.
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"Nothing is more antithetical to Mr. Snow's outsider 'street cred' than association with corporate consumerism—of which McDonald's and its marketing are the epitome."
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The ad draws some not-so-subtle connections between PC consumerism and soulless corporate office spaces of the 1980s to George Orwell's dystopian '1984.
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Here's an example of a good consumerism tweet that's the opposite of a compliment: why are the women in mascara commercials always secret agents.
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Without wishing to encourage careless consumerism, I think the price is so low that I'd buy a fresh pair if one of these breaks.
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"Consumerism and our reliance on convenience has rendered skills such as gardening, cooking, sewing, knitting, carpentry and so on as, well, quaint," she writes.
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I feel like that's such a good reminder: that in a world of constant consumerism, investing in timeless pieces you love is worth it.
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You see, the album was a "gift" you paid for because she understands, better than anyone, that the true spirit of Christmas is consumerism.
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Mindful or conscious consumerism is the application of personal economics toward goods or services that entrench environmental and social solutions into their business models.
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Capitalism needs conscious consumerism to support companies whose supply chains, profit structures, product, packaging and more express value in their eco and ethical impact.
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While the trend toward conscious consumerism has already begun, it hasn't generated nearly enough momentum to keep up with our pace of environmental destruction.
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It seems weird a band who once sounded so anti-consumerism have so many different records for sale on a wide variety of formats.
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It'd be good for the environment, too, since it'd help reduce the amount of e-waste that ends up in landfills because of consumerism.
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Babaeva's wayward organisms threaten the kitsch 'designer' consumerism, breaking away from a mold that, like the imposing arrow aforementioned, can be an oppressive guide.
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Related: [Exclusive] The Complicated, Infuriating Art of Burning Money Money is the Medium in Dollar Bill Collages Monopoly Money Sculptures Combine Consumerism with Creativity
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As incomes have soared and consumerism has taken hold across the continent, the cardboard replicas, once limited to fake currency, have become increasingly elaborate.
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Or is it now based on decades of consumerism, buying stuff for children who know the truth but still want stuff and more stuff?
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The best poem, painting, color-coordinated robe—these were all aesthetically as well as spiritually appealing in a kind of religiously validated, feudalist consumerism.
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"These monks look at Thailand, which has embraced a Western outlook and consumerism, and that has affected the standing of monks there," he says.
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So instead of judging yourself against the rampant consumerism of the age, you quite literally became the product the most powerful corporations were selling.
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Mocking faddy internet culture and rampant consumerism is a bit less interesting, funny, and incisive when you've decided to take the money and run.
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Russians travel widely and have nearly unlimited access to information and technology, and the Soviet command economy has given way to far greater consumerism.
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Their puckers and pleats convey the oceanic sweep of history, and his abstract compositions bristle with attention to trade, slavery, consumerism, and the environment.
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Artists are not economists, after all, and there is a value to her insistent gaze on the most unrefined forms of wealth and consumerism.
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"I've never been a big fan of society structured predominantly along lines of consumerism, but I had made my peace with it," he said.
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The consumerism, the hyper-individualism, the greed, the lack of some common project or goal — doesn't all of that lead to something like decadence?
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Francis recommends following Jesus' Beatitudes, avoiding gossip, having a sense of humor, reaching out to our neighbors and shunning consumerism and too much technology.
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As they encounter scenes of a nation fed up with consumerism and capitalism, Mr. Godard suggests the only way over the hump is anarchy.
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L has made works that explore racism, poverty, class inequality and consumerism in ways that are sometimes satirical, often biting, but always strangely moving.
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The late stage capitalism, obsessive consumerism, dislocation and fundamental loss of hope that has led to spikes in suicide, addiction, and deaths of despair.
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I try not to spend money on Sundays to escape consumerism one day a week and to help me Keep the Sabbath Day Holy.
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Why blame individuals when consumerism is encouraged, when convenience is encouraged, when bad food choices come with a smaller price tag than healthy choices?
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The film — a fraud itself — weaves the family's videos with other clips found on YouTube to tell a tale on the perils of consumerism.
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The 21985-track album remains true to the band's signature robo-pop sound and offers a rumination and indictment on have-it-all consumerism.
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Gruen would later despise the ultimate result of his creation—the unintended but perhaps totally foreseeable consequences of attempting to transplant culture via consumerism.
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Consumerism and distractions require vigilance The pull of distractions and urges to buy things (to solve problems or give us pleasure) is incredibly strong.
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As people started to share everything from the tools in their garages to the clothes in their closets, they predicted, consumerism would become passé.
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Assemblage was the common denominator in the group during these early years, when their works often addressed consumerism, the drug culture, and political unrest.
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And it's that curating, juxtaposing, and sorting through decades of detritus that makes the museum more than just an Ali Baba's cave of consumerism.
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Ingredient scrutiny is a big part of wellness consumerism, and if you're selling stuff that isn't perceived as "natural," it's a problem for a brand.
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This 1968 movie is one of the first to link zombies and critiques of consumerism, making it the prototype for zombie movies that came after.
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White Rex rejects modern society — its relativism, consumerism, hedonism — in favor of militantly reviving its vision of traditional masculinity: conservative, straight-edge, and unapologetically racist.
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He promises a "desirable future", in which consumerism, production and working hours are curbed, greenery flourishes and happiness, long scarce in France, breaks out everywhere.
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Sustainability-tinged consumer activism is a new flavor of an old tactic, one that falls under the umbrella of what we now call conscious consumerism.
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As consumerism modernized into the early 222th century, pictures like these aligned baking products for pie-making with American values as a mass-marketing strategy.
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"I use human dignity, the common good, human solidarity, family, community ... even challenging the dominant culture of consumerism," she says about her views on film.
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How can you, an American, a creature born with an innate love of all things capitalism and consumerism, not know of our most hallowed holiday?
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With the rise of sustainability-focused startups as well as concerted efforts from established brands, the bar for responsible consumerism is being raised every day.
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That feeds into the running theme of consumerism in Us, like Gabe's purchase of a dinky boat to keep up with his wealthier friend Josh.
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Money is being made, consumerism is entrenched, and there is a future for any company that can crack the Confucian code and navigate Chinese customs.
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The bitter, gruesome finale even aired three days before Christmas, a network-sponsored potshot at American sentimentality and consumerism that should go down as legend.
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The resulting works typically featured pampered enclaves of consumerism-obsessed one-percenters, whose avant-garde fashion and style choices infused their stories with dark comedy.
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Wilson and Rudolph play two characters who are accidentally cryogenically frozen for 500 years, awakening in a U.S. that embraces low intelligence and rampant consumerism.
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He famously talked about "New Slaves," in a brilliant rambling rap song about the transition from physical slavery to being enslaved by ignorance and consumerism.
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Based on these stats, even those who fall into the 1% aren't necessarily wealthy enough to eschew budgeting and ignore the pitfalls of modern consumerism.
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From seeking validation through consumerism to having a warped sense of integrity under the guise of religion, it all comes down to apathy and greed.
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The catalog, which was introduced around 1891, undid the power of the storekeeper, the landlord and, by extension, the racially marked consumerism of Jim Crow.
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Aspirational consumerism, rococo finery, and the pop cultural image-as-iconography of Rick Ross; a Carlos Rolón/Dzine exhbition is something experienced, not just observed.
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Vasquez was thorough in his linking of American decline with American consumerism, stuffing one with the other like GIR stuffs his fuel tanks with tuna.
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Spending less was a game-changer for Cait Flanders, who wrote her book "The Year of Less" about living with less consumerism and fewer things.
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There's a downside to this focus on consumerism: Some fans spend thousands of dollars on merchandise or travel to attend concerts and meet-and-greets.
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Twenty-five years ago, Amazon was simply an online purveyor of books making a radical bet on what the future of consumerism might look like.
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Together, the artists challenge dominant notions of nationalism, consumerism, neocolonialism, and masculinist tropes through a shared language of femininity, domesticity, bodies, fiction, and the everyday.
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"All initiatives that could slow down the soaring consumerism and, in consequence, the amount of garbage that we produce globally are very welcome," he explains.
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I think her dislike of consumerism and deep-rooted fear of not being able to afford all we had bought played a part as well.
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A "more durable slowdown" could hit the economy if consumerism continues to fall, BMO Capital Markets' Ian Lyngen said in reaction to the September report.
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These habits not only represented a tenet of Kamprad's personal philosophy towards consumerism but were also meant to serve as a model for his employees.
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Sanjay Srivastava, a sociology professor at Delhi University, said the global spread of consumerism had helped popularize the holiday, especially among a moneyed Hindu elite.
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Another example is the whole subject of consumerism in art, which really began in the mid '80s, but we were already doing it in 1970.
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Nothing about The Last Night's world sounds preachy — if anything, its social commentary sounds remarkably mild, covering ubiquitous future-shock anxieties like gamification, automation, and consumerism.
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"There is an issue related to the ozone and there's a lack of engagement with social media to a degree, and therefore, global consumerism," Penn joked.
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I don't think consumerism is necessarily the best way to celebrate us, but since there was virtually nothing there before, I'll call this a good start.
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Jean-Luc Godard's swirling essay film The Image Book spliced together fictional and archival images to build a rambling case against global consumerism, authoritarianism, and more.
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In a time when pop culture and consumerism are so intertwined, they've done a solid job of incorporating memes of the moment into their content rolodex.
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And [Vo] is trying to bring in a critique of consumerism and capitalist desire, in a way that's kind of linked with the critique of masculinity.
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Without giving too much away, today's story is a brutal, razor-sharp satire of brand consumerism, institutional racism, the private prison complex, and well, you'll see.
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Some tracks, like "Whip It" and "Beautiful World," were pop Trojan horses, with their deadpan critiques of American conformity and consumerism subverting infectious riffs and rhythms.
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These two images coming together as one start a conversation in my mind of idolization, fan culture, relics, shrines and their relationship to consumerism and boredom.
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Mr Berger collapsed the space between the viewer and the art, between high culture and low, placing art within the material world of consumerism and class.
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" And to that I say, "Hey buddy, I love to talk about technology and explore its implications, but I didn't sign up to support consumerism, okay?
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Can contemporary secular society so focused on technology, consumerism, complexity and immediacy even create spaces and forms that elicit the extraordinary responses that Notre Dame did?
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Read more: Terrible things tourists have done at Disney parksGordon said her experience really just confirmed her beliefs about Disney, corporations, and "American consumerism" in general.
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She continues: "I think people who are good with money are often not afraid to go against the grain and to actively unplug from consumerism."173.
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Even as he proselytized for such a system, however, the activist "producer ethic" of early America was being upended by the new model of passive consumerism.
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Garner has been an absurdist for four decades, satirizing consumerism, marketing, and waste in performance art, videos, sculpture, installations, drawings and magazine editorials and art pages.
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It can stand for globalisation, the power of marketing, rampant consumerism, and the addictive nature of technology-enhanced food products (like, say, high fructose corn syrup).
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The aim was to encourage more patriotic consumerism on the premise that Americans would buy more of a product if they knew it was produced domestically.
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Children watching the videos, meanwhile, were being marketed to without their understanding, addicted to consumerism by toy unboxings and playtime videos, and targeted with personalized ads.
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Perhaps the problem resides in our hegemonic system, in which Western free-market consumerism and its cultural production machinery run rampant throughout the practice of art.
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"Crazy Diamond," starring Steve Buscemi, is a nigh-incomprehensible clearance sale of dystopian premises — human-animal chimeras, extreme climate change, consumerism as a tool of oppression.
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Reza was there at the height of the 1980s and the "me" culture and the massive inflation of consumerism that replaced human rights in this country.
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Thai soldiers recall the Vietnam War as a yearlong opportunity to observe the American-style consumerism that would influence Thailand in the 1970s, '80s and '90s.
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The luxury industry will have to adapt to conscious consumerism and the increasing demand for a luxury purchase to have substantive value, beyond aesthetics and craftsmanship.
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With me by her side, we battled the bad "isms" (imperialism, fascism, sexism and consumerism) and we fought for the good ones (communism, feminism and egalitarianism).
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The tsunami of Goop hatred is best understood within a context that is much older and runs much deeper than Twitter, streaming platforms, consumerism or capitalism.
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One of the funniest answers to this question comes from the comedian Conner O'Malley, who has built a career playacting the way consumerism warps our spirits.
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Some of the earliest paintings in the New Museum show include figures of Mickey Mouse and Superman; others refer to the American consumerism he'd left behind.
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Her consumerism, her profession, her politics — Bonapartist, anti-Dreyfusard, devoutly colonialist — and the sheer size of her wealth, make her, alas, a woman for our time.
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Edinburgh-based producer Benjamin John Power's uncommonly ferocious fourth album seethes with the chaos of the late 2010s and grinds through the fallout of hyper-consumerism.
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But it's the way that Disney sells you those items that is unprecedented in the history of theme park consumerism, deserving a name all its own.
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You need only look at the career of George Romero, who imbued his zombie movies with blunt social commentary on consumerism, race and Cold War militarism.
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When she finally gets out into the world, it's no surprise that her freedom soon spirals into a fever dream of consumerism, hedonism and revenge fantasies.
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It was a potent reminder that consumerism and outfoxing our rivals aren't answers to grief — it's actually body work that can help us to re-center.
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The effects of globalization, consumerism, and urbanization are at the core of the artist's work, from QR codes amidst desolate landscapes, to animals lost in concrete jungles.
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The sign flashes from "queen" to "queer," questioning the role of the woman in consumerism, the notion of feminine identity, and the ideologies engendered in the South.
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They suggest a space for depictions of excess and capital that are respectively angry and reparative, complicating the idea that consumerism is the only way of life.
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" Kering is uniquely positioned in the fashion industry to transform consumerism into a circular economy — to make sustainability "a must-have," not just a "nice-to-have.
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Similarly, OKgrl is a crossroads of art, fashion, design, content production, and above all, consumerism, all wrapped up in a culturally diverse, nostalgia-inducing, dreamy pop package.
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"Something that we really talk a lot about is conscious consumerism, because as a store in the zero-waste space we're never encouraging over-consumption," she says.
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If we're going to sell our souls to consumerism, why not do it the right way, with companies that are giving back to charities on Black Friday?
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Everyone can agree to hate gauche augmented reality consumerism, but what happens if a patronizingly benevolent technocrat picks a utopia for us, and we don't even notice?
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"It's going to be really interesting to watch the way consumerism and the fashion world interact with Islam, and how that relationship will unfold," Al-Khatahtbeh said.
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In his later writing, he condemned the role of corporate money in American politics and worried that a society drenched in consumerism could not achieve self-government.
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But I've never had the money to buy a new machine every year, and that kind of consumerism just isn't for me, despite my Apple fanboy ways.
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Enjoy a glimpse of consumerism at its best from an e-commerce site that is showing how much shopping we do online, especially the Monday after Thanksgiving.
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The exercise soon became about much more than saving money on blush and eye shadow; instead, she says, it's changed her entire mindset about spending and consumerism.
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GM achieved the peak of its power in the period after World War II and into the 1960s, as markets around the globe recovered and consumerism emerged.
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Related: Panning for Gold to Make Money and Art We Spoke To The Designers Of Norway's New Pixel Art Currency Monopoly Money Sculptures Combine Consumerism with Creativity
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We often talk about the empty-storefront problem as a crisis of urban planning and inadequate regulation, a threat to a beloved and intimate style of consumerism.
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But his editorial ethos — curious, skeptical, attuned to the pleasures of consumerism and the anxieties of urban life — permanently reshaped several of the country's most prominent publications.
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"The Years" is an earnest, fearless book, a "Remembrance of Things Past" for our age of media domination and consumerism, for our period of absolute commodity fetishism.
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The group is anti-gentrification, anti-consumerism, anti-censorship, and at points some of its members have been homeless or struggled with addiction and mental health issues.
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The film turns on warring halves, a presumptive beta (Edward Norton) and his alpha twin (Pitt), who confront consumerism, postmodern anomie and that cult known as masculinity.
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PARIS, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Activists staged protests against online retailer Amazon around France on Friday, denouncing the rampant consumerism typified by the annual Black Friday shopping frenzy.
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PARIS, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Activists staged protests against online retailer Amazon around France on Friday, denouncing the rampant consumerism typified by the annual Black Friday shopping frenzy.
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Greenfield has spent more than two decades as a photographer and documentarian looking at consumerism, wealth and culture, oftentimes by examining the lives of women and girls.
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The impact of consumerism on the environment is part of what drives both eco-evangelists like Adeney and neo-monastics to live as sparely as they do.
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His resulting grids, which consider the campsite as a paradoxical space where consumerism and wilderness collide, are compiled in Thirtyfour Campgrounds, recently released by the MIT Press.
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The change was both a response to the new culture of consumerism — items are a click away — and a way to engage the audience in real time.
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Then there it was, a shining beacon of consumerism, nestled into the landscape, this landmark, Prada Marfa, a fake Prada store, a symbol of wealth and prosperity.
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Related Felt Portraits of Famous Athletes Look as Good as They Feel Bank-Robbing Performance Artist Faces Real Jail Time Monopoly Money Sculptures Combine Consumerism with Creativity
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I realize that it's horrible I'm complaining about not being able to indulge in consumerism when there are way more concerning matters like poverty and famine out there.
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In this way Vigía makes common cause with ordinary Cuban citizens, whose resourcefulness and ingenuity have become national characteristics, and exquisite design takes the place of broad consumerism.
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"Conscious consumerism is a lie," writes sustainable fashion expert and frequent Vox contributor Alden Wicker for Quartz, quoting a speech she delivered at the 2017 UN Youth Delegation.
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"Most of the things you see in our catalog are not real," he said (which I'm pretty sure he meant literally, not as a postmodern comment on consumerism).
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The holiday, which once marked the beginning of the holiday shopping season (more on that later), is associated with consumerism, materialism, and, occasionally, a lack of family values.
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Hailed as a Soylent product "regular people might drink," it is named after a dystopian fictional product from Frederik Pohl's science fiction satire on consumerism The Space Merchants.
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I took a sociology class last year in high school, and we talked a lot about capitalism and consumerism and we watched a documentary called The True Cost.
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But consumerism in the first world is absolutely an emotional element that strips so much of our hard-earned money out of our wallets each and every year.
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It's full of bald consumerism and hashtag wisdom, and still contains many claims about the superfoods that can fight cancer, or the herbs that will juice your metabolism.
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For the aspirational class, the moral consumerism of buying the heirloom tomato provides a handy cover for the fact that their inconspicuous consumption reinforces their own economic privilege.
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Route 66, rockabilly, drive-in movies, hot rods, NASCAR—these are purely American creations, born from the cultural cross-pollination of consumerism and the "personal freedom" it allows.
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While the least effective works of the exhibition criticize neoliberalism from an intellectual ivory tower, the strongest pieces effectively engage visitors by inverting the byproducts of neoliberal consumerism.
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK. Like any young person with a need for purpose and a penchant for consumerism, after I graduated, I needed a job.
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Economies largely based on consumerism, as in America, or speculation, as in China, will find themselves struggling to find traction with those that function just fine with less.
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However, it is also frothy and warm enough that watching it makes you feel that you have been swaddled in a cozy blanket of family values and consumerism.
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That some misguided people are willing to steal expensive coats says as much about the importance of consumerism in a capitalist country as it does about their morals.
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Mach, who's previously been nominated for the Turner Prize is heavily influenced by consumerism and known for taking mass produced pedestrian objects and moulding them into unorthodox creations.
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Sarah Pinsker's new novel, A Song for A New Day is a whiplash paced, near-future tale of oppression, surveillance, consumerism, and the power of art and protest.
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It requires first stepping away from one's preoccupation with consumerism and capitalism, instead putting time and energy into such issues as treating each other with respect and humanity.
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Earlier, Francis urged people to resist the excesses of consumerism in the period leading up to Christmas, calling it a virus that attacks faith and offends the needy.
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Moschino Barbie, which goes for more than three hundred dollars on eBay, celebrates bubblegum consumerism: she's loaded with accessories—purse, cell phone—and dripping with mini Moschino bling.
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Having first moved to Los Angeles in the '90s, Nouwens has spent decades documenting the sharp contrast of lifestyles, from high-end consumerism to youth culture and homelessness.
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Mr. Brand is a spellbinding talker, and while he was banging on about the evils of consumerism and its relationship to addiction, I was hanging on every word.
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This came at the time of Thatcherism, when the messages were all about consumerism, looking after number one, that to be someone meant you had to have money.
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Bags — shaped like hair dryers, cash registers, toothpaste tubes and Champagne bottles dangling from shoulder straps — were the emblems of consumerism, and of Jeremy Scott's loopy, lighthearted world.
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Consumerism is on the rise, I think most people use things as a comfort and in uncertain times I think people turn for material comfort more than ever.
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For me, the concept of incorporating Monopoly boards into my work was a natural and fun progression, particularly in relation to my exploration of the economy and consumerism.
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Both exhilarating and disturbing, the otaku culture reflects the excessive consumerism and hedonism of post-war Japan, especially during the economic bubble of the late 1980s and early '90s.
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It's become a situation where the hits are mega-hits, which is exciting and can often make a company's year, but it leads to this kind of mono-consumerism.
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He said it's adopted from a mishmash of consumerism, pushed by Dems to keep black folks trapped -- as opposed to encouraging entrepreneurship and self-ownership ... a traditionally GOP philosophy.
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Long the proudly uncool symbol of American middle-class consumerism, Walmart is now on a high-end shopping binge that suggests a departure from its pedestrian mass-market roots.
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My first lesson in savvy consumerism came in elementary school from my best friend's mother, who sat us down and handed us a bottle of fancy grown-up shampoo.
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There is a performance of consumerism and negotiation taking place within the gallery; taking something away from an art show is an experience most of us have never had.
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Directed by Marc Munden, scripted by Tony Grisoni Based on "Sales Pitch," 1954 "Sales Pitch," similar to "Autofac," is about high-tech consumerism taken to a bizarre, illogical endpoint.
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Another of Bonneau's top tips is to learn some basic life skills, like sewing and gardening, so that you are less dependent on consumerism to meet your basic needs.
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And yet, there is something in the distance with which Eggleston's photographs deal with American racism, poverty, and consumerism — an irony, alienation, and detachment — that frustrate a contemporary viewer.
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This was nothing unusual; South Korea–based photographer JeongMee Yoon considered the colorful demands of her daughter less an expression of personality and more an example of rampant consumerism.
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Throughout this age of consumerism true design innovation rarely comes from the dominant player and more often comes from the startups that must take a chance to get noticed.
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After counseling hundreds of people in financial messes, I can say that much of the over-spending, hyper-consumerism in America today is fueled by a desire for happiness.
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But if the world is to stand a chance, the U.S. will have to take even bigger steps—nothing short of a wholesale rejection of modern American consumerism itself.
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But abroad, the dying icon of American consumerism is now being reborn in the way Gruen originally intended — as a hub for community and cultural experiences, not just commerce.
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He attempted to juxtapose the decreasing value of college education due to the debt burden and a shifting economic structure, with the dangers consumerism and the pitfalls of wealth.
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Even the announcers, who usually mess up even the simplest storylines, clicked into place, telling the home audience that it wasn't just consumerism Bryan was going after, but capitalism.
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Aaron Goldstein's shouty lyrics, which cover topics ranging from consumerism to discontent with traditional post-graduation career paths, coalesce in a listening experience that is intellectually invigorating and contemplative.
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The tension between the upbeat face of the postwar years and the moral rot of consumerism and nationalism underneath it is resolvable only through laughter — or going slightly mad.
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What better way to celebrate life on Earth than to convert Toys R Us, a monument to excessive consumerism, into a temporary haven of hard beats and democratized euphoria?
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One of their collaborations was "Operation Supermarket," a series of large photographs of everyday household goods whose packages they had rebranded with sardonic messages to mock consumerism and capitalism.
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His work serves as a commentary on the power consumerism has over us, and the ways it is constantly reshaping our identities; David just makes that process more apparent.
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The "river" is strewn with detritus including discarded bottles, boots, an alarm clock, a trashed tire, and an outdated, television — the refuse of the American dream of unlimited consumerism.
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Tran, whose practice addresses issues of consumerism and waste, installed collaged cutouts of Canadian products from the first half of the 20th century at The Forks, a riverside park.
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As curators, artists, auction house executives and critics reflect on the value of art in the age of consumerism, we see that the issue is rarely black and white.
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Like many tech companies, YouTube has a hands-off approach to many discussions about its platform, including the issues consumerism advocates and parents have about its toy unboxing videos.
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But by the late 1990s, some of Bollywood's most successful films were showcasing gaudy, Trump-style consumerism, leavened by a hypermasculine Hinduism, in which women always knew their place.
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Poverty, addiction, homelessness, the middle class, the working class, gun violence, class warfare, community disintegration, inequality, stagnant wages, consumerism or any of the other ills of late stage capitalism.
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The work has toured internationally to places like Miami Beach and Abu Dhabi, but placing the piece at New York's literal crossroads of consumerism and urbanism amplifies its message.
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Cleveland-based artists Laura and Gary Dumm, who have addressed consumerism and corporatism in their work since 2012, are currently creating art with an environmental focus for The Artful Activist.
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Why not use the inevitability of the end of growth to our advantage by planning to reduce both mindless consumerism and carbon emissions, while increasing equity and quality of life?
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" The ethical fashion community is "still so niche, and not many people would read a blog post or article about slow fashion or conscious consumerism unless they were already involved.
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In many ways, it's a feat of American consumerism that the company lasted this long, its viability driven apparently entirely by unnecessary mall browsing and wide-eyed teenage sex pests.
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"Going to a museum in China often feels like going to a shopping centre," says Mr Li—an experience of rushed consumerism, typically characterised by large crowds and smartphone selfies.
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But with the end of conflict in 2017, shops have returned and Venice Street, with its trendy new stores and elegant cafes, has brought back a level of wealthy consumerism.
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Shot like a silent film, the black-and-white video features director K8 Howl trapped inside a giant abandoned mall that seems to represent the internet, or consumerism, or both.
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Opener "Hang On Me" is too close to Alanis Morrissette for comfort, but "Pills" is tonight's pinnacle visually and musically, a sumptuous orgy of synaesthesia as well as robotic consumerism.
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Duncan Clark, an expert on China's technology sector, explains the result in a fascinating new book: Mr Ma "stands at the intersection of China's newfound cults of consumerism and entrepreneurship".
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This past spring I read the book We Were Feminists Once by Andi Zeisler, and reading it definitely influenced a lot of my thoughts about consumerism and feminism in general.
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Martinez has a history or elevating the mundane into riveting artworks—his 2013 solo show Buy Now, Cry Later was all about repurposing advertising techniques into a critique of consumerism.
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They believe that men who engage in commercial sex consumerism would never do so with a victim of sex trafficking if given the opportunity to patronize a legal, regulated brothel.
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The internet has opened up channels of self-expression and made fashion more accessible, but issues of choice and power are more critical than ever in consumerism as in politics.
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While the artist had previously been absorbed in the American fascination with celebrity, consumerism, and counterculture, the silhouettes of flowers offered a refreshing deviation from the plastic world he displayed.
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There are hundreds of explanations for our inconsistency, according to Julie Irwin, a professor at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, Austin, who studies ethical consumerism.
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Emerging out of the coastal city of Yangjiang in the early moments of Deng's economic reform, he was an enthralled observer of the blooming consumerism and influx of global culture.
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Many defectors had told me how much they miss the intimacy of their neighborhoods in the North, a stark contrast to Seoul's cool, atomistic consumerism; but here, a tenderness prevailed.
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At its best, McKelvie and Gillen's creation takes swings at the relationship between celebrity, art, and consumerism, with some panels that are so brilliantly magical and suddenly beautiful it's startling.
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Kendall Dunn, 18 In the day and age of wealth, where consumerism is ubiquitous, it's become acceptable to compulsively fill desires through material gains, such as new clothes or electronics.
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It's vital that students learn basic information about taxes, insurance, mortgages, credit, loans, personal banking, consumerism and the stock market before they are forced to learn it the hard way.
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In the 80-minute opera, Sophocles's "Oedipus Rex" is moved to the trash-strewn streets of a contemporary London troubled by the plagues of unemployment, poverty, police brutality and consumerism.
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Let fiction transport you to other worlds this week, from Arundhati Roy's cinematic contemporary India to Sarah Perry's fantastical Victorian England to Courtney Maum's near future of rampant techie consumerism.
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He would be much more comfortable in Huxley's world, which is based on rampant consumerism and where hordes of genetically modified losers happily tend to the needs of the winners.
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A mountain of old clothing — a combination of donations from Saks employees and out-of-stock merchandise — fills the windows and serves as a kind of direct message on consumerism.
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When we substitute juice for fruit, at home or at school, we're cheating children out of the healthful diet they need to thrive in the name of convenience and consumerism.
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In short, B Corps leverage their resources to pay into a better world, creating a definition of success that includes commonwealth and positive impact as necessary aspects of sustainable consumerism.
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Louis Hyman, an author and professor of history and consumerism at Cornell, wrote a compelling thread on Twitter that explained how the Sears catalog empowered black consumers during Jim Crow.
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Likewise, gratitude and compassion have been tied to better academic performance, a greater willingness to exercise and eat healthily, and lower levels of consumerism, impulsivity and tobacco and alcohol use.
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The debut record from these firebrands is colored by brash guitars and the muscular vocals of their frontwoman, Katie Alice Greer, whose lyrics broach subjects like consumerism and free will.
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Along with corruption, these changes have given rise to a culture of consumerism and scenes of prosperity: sports cars, cellphones, fancy coffee shops and high-rise apartment buildings in Pyongyang.
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Malls function as an orgy of consumerism—places where shopping is an experience, replete with opportunities for dining, resting, and generally drawing out the shopping process as much as possible.
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That rapid growth underscores the fact that Giving Tuesday has become a phenomenon in its own right — an outlet for a backlash against the consumerism of the holiday shopping season.
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While last year we recommended you go outside and experience nature, this year we're entertaining the possibility of wholly giving up to consumerism for the day (like every other day).
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Bloomberg reported that activists within the Shakopee facilities previously brought demands to Amazon over the summer, when the Muslim holiday of Ramadan intersected with Prime Day, an annual celebration of consumerism.
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To salt the wound, there are now dozens of Harambe Cheeto-related items polluting the eBay listings, a cruel burlesque at the nadir of consumerism and irony and possibly humanity itself.
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Ethical and activist consumerism are luxury goods and probably worth the price if you can still put a meal on the table or afford a pair of sneakers for your kids.
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But unlike most YouTube trends, it provides a snapshot of both the gamified nature of our current consumerism and the contentiousness of one of the internet's most trusted consumer review sites.
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Poetry had to unsettle, subvert, with luck destroy, whatever stopped human beings thinking freely and acting justly, as he understood justice: consumerism, militarism, modern psychiatry, ossified institutions, brain-numbing new technologies.
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The movie screams of a kind of late 1980s, early 1990s consumerism that firmly dates it, even as its aspirations are rooted in a more fundamental version of the American Dream.
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There is still some of that around, but you have to get away from those areas that have become a bit like Vegas, in that they're just this massive consumerism place.
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When alternative beliefs and consumerism intersect, problems arise when people get the idea that they can buy an object, such as a Native American drum, and "achieve that spirituality," he notes.
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Related: Hand-Cut Collages Take Aim at Consumerism and Pop Culture Cut-Out Collages Turn Medical Magazines into 'Lord of the Flies' Characters Intricate Collages Turn Everyday Detritus into Iconic Portraits
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We never had good times… maybe [ousted liberal politicians] Dilma and Lula experimented on us with the possibility of consumerism—'go buy a cellphone'—but this never made our lives better.
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As Jones suggested, to call out the Kardashians for something like their emphasis on "consumption and consumerism" is hypocritical unless we acknowledge that these qualities are born from our broader culture.
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In Alexandre Lunois's lithograph "Le Magasin de Nouveautés (L'Exposition du 'Bon Marché')," bustling shoppers are illuminated by the store's electric arc lamps, evidence of the new technology's role in fostering consumerism.
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"Adopting" a family allows us to focus on the holiday values that resonate with us, like community, charity, and family, while setting aside the things we don't value, like mindless consumerism.
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Jeffrey D. Sachs, a Columbia University economist who edited the report with Dr. Helliwell and Richard Layard of the London School of Economics, praised Pope Francis' admonition against hedonism and consumerism.
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The twinned trends of conscious consumerism and holistic personal wellness are dictated largely by companies with a vested interest in stoking our desire to feel healthy, ethical, enlightened, and environmentally responsible.
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With that in mind, over the course of the year, CNBC Make It will look at different facets of consumerism and finance and how they relate to climate change and sustainability.
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Detours into the efforts of firms attempting to produce their goods through gentler methods offer a glimpse into how consumerism, slowed to a less ferocious pace, might be reconciled with sustainability.
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But for most people, a recliner represents a space away from work, a napcentric, personal pod of softness that aligns surprisingly well with late-2010s consumerism Treat Yo' Self-care culture.
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The word "consumerism" may have negative connotations in the United States, where such spending accounts for about 19893 percent of G.D.P., but it means something quite different in recently poor countries.
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"Overall conscious consumerism is on the rise in industries across the board, and we are seeing that in weddings as well," said Kristen Maxwell Cooper, editor in chief of the Knot.
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What we are watching is the promised endpoint of consumerism: a fantasy of quasi-religious transcendence, complete with moral virtue ("allyship") and galaxy-brain wisdom and strength and drama and violence.
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Let's Not Find Out" Alex Bruce on "Beyond Androgyny: Nonbinary Teenage Fashion" Emma Chen on "The New Spiritual Consumerism" Jaden Faunteroy on "Is Slavery's Legacy in the Power Dynamics of Sports?
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The whole saga sits at the nexus of gender politics and consumerism and the outrage the original decision caused led a big industry lobbying group to adopt a more progressive stance.
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Green republicans have an unshakable conviction that the endless search for economic growth set in motion by the advent of mass consumerism is at the very root of our ecological crisis.
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Whether we're talking strip malls, mega-malls, or sprawling outdoor outlet shopping centers, the hallowed hallways of consumerism and commerce have a dark story tell and a very unlikely origin story.
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The culture at large might venerate consumerism more loudly than it does religion or public service, but it has the decency to allow local heroes at least a bit of space.
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The sculptor Ilana Harris-Babou is another standout artist at the biennial, where the Brooklyn native is showing a trio of satirical films exploring the relationship between race, politics, and consumerism.
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Look closely at Snuggies for the Revolution and you'll find kaleidoscopic rubber bullets, tasers, tear gas, police batons, and grenade launchers emblazoned on what might be the absolute embodiment of American consumerism.
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The dedication of Dodie's stans comes as no surprise to Dr Henrik Linden, of the University of East London, and co-author of Fans and Fan Cultures: Tourism, Consumerism and Social Media.
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Where, at the same time, legislation struggles to keep pace with technological change; capitalism and consumerism destroy even as they enrich; and nationalism, racism and xenophobia poison the public discourse, threatening disaster.
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Held at a private art center founded by Shanghai collector Qiao Zhibing, the TANK Art Festival proved itself to be an art fair unafraid to embrace consumerism and unburdened by academic formalities.
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I will be conscious of my consumerism and criticism of music because the value of a talented man is no longer worth all the women it means we lose, isolate, and disenfranchise.
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Kim leaves it up to the viewer to decide if these are nothing but a sweet treat, or if a comment on mass consumerism in the art world accompanies the sugar rush.
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From the experiences one derives from the digital age, consumerism, political disenfranchisement, and emotional desires, the work reminds me of Benjamin's panoramic analyses meant to provide orientation within the antinomies of capitalism.
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I didn't believe in consumerism, red was never my color, and the season's prescribed feelings of merriment only amplified the fact that my hormones had left me angry at pretty much everything.
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In reaction to what they saw as the slick consumerism of American pop art and the impersonal nature of minimalism, Arte Povera artists sought to close the gap between art and life.
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But when the final bill is tallied, including T-shirts, shooting lessons, and of course, borscht, Kryjivka, despite its theme, isn't really about indoctrination into nationalism, but rather about indoctrination into consumerism.
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Here's an example of what a Sesame Credit score page looks like: The private sector has an interest in encouraging rule compliance, she said, because social credit programs could encourage more consumerism.
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The three principal characters are Malachai, Mommy, and Maggie: a schizophrenic false prophet raging against consumerism, a dim Catholic housewife with control issues, and her daughter, who's into sex, drugs, and existentialism.
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Debord's observation appears particularly prescient today when one compares the amount of media coverage that terrorism receives in comparison to climate change (the latter being the direct consequence of our relentless consumerism).
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The most emotionally devastating comic book in recent memory features a man coming to grips with his obsolescence, questioning humanity's squandering nature and gross consumerism, and coping with the scars of war.
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Daniel Zausner, the tennis center's chief operating officer, said the changes reflected the current, restless state of sports consumerism, in which fans want multiple choices and a constant selection of new things.
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Most of all, it has been undermined by rampant consumerism, by celebrity culture, by reality-TV fantasies that tell people success comes in a quick flash of publicity, not through steady work.
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That still exists today—that policy and ethos of mass consumerism exists in the great nation that we once were... the former United Kingdom, which no longer exists anymore due to Brexit.
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We now value these films as cultural and social artifacts, railing against consumerism and racism, but for a long time, they were just "splatter films" and hardly likely to warrant critical discussion.
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Duets, choruses and sung soliloquies revealed the protagonists' concerns about proliferating seaweed, sunscreens, consumerism, mass tourism and global warming — both causes and effects of the strain humanity is putting on the planet.
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" Over a series of heaving, stomping riffs, it's a cranked-up, slow-grinding attack on addiction and consumerism with a chant-along chorus: "Let's break out these chains/Let's burn it down.
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That victory was squandered, however, by Republicans and Democrats starting later in that decade who pursued economic policy not in terms of national industry but as an exercise in global ideological consumerism.
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The monumental turn toward manufactured and industrially produced artworks was a reputational coup for the emerging avant-garde looking to stake an artistic claim to something more American than apple pie: consumerism.
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But in a country that for decades officially disavowed the cult of consumerism, there now lives a form of car culture that is also derivative of the Western passion for the automobile.
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Relocating Dürrenmatt's tragicomic fable from middle Europe to a dying factory town in upstate New York in the mid-1950s has allowed him to take uncharacteristically crude potshots at all-American consumerism.
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Crowninshield shepherded stars like Dorothy Parker, Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, and Djuna Barnes into his pages, mingling high society concerns with the artistic avant-garde, social moralism with luxury consumerism.
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"It's a more holistic consumerism," says Mr. Doeblin, describing the bookstore resurgence as part of the explosion of the localism movement that finds young new farmers delivering fresh produce to Main Street markets.
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This isn't meant to act as a defense of Apple, the most valuable company in the world, as it seeks to keep consumers addicted to the thrill of high-priced, tech-addled consumerism.
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To stream them, all you need is the app and a library card, which is a relief at a time when consumerism is going into overdrive thanks to Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
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"In revisiting a gown already worn on the red carpet Cate Blanchett makes a symbolic gesture towards the idea of more responsible consumerism, where clothes are not so frequently discarded," the brand wrote.
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There's a similarity in this attitude to Pop, but Broodthaers explored slightly different, if tangential, themes: language, institutional power, and politics, as opposed to Pop's consumerism, mass production, and kitsch-as-high-art.
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It is a bold monument to 21st-century Asian consumerism, all the more fitting for its tacky faux-Angkor columns and an infinity pool more crowded than a London lido in a heatwave.
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King of Comedy and Fight Club both capture a particular American zeitgeist: the former is about celebrity worship in the 1980s, while the latter is about the backlash against consumerism in the 1990s.
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Not at Kering, which is one of the few fashion companies that have made sustainability part of its core mission, that does not believe that green fashion and consumerism are fundamentally at odds.
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Files, gadgets, video installations, co-branding opportunities, cultures, conflicts, natural disasters, memes, technologies — BB9 is filled with works that attempt to replicate a kind of "critical" consumerism but instead simply conforms to it.
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"There has been much debate and criticism of the growing 'throwaway society', characterized by consumerism and the trend to throw away and buy something new rather than keep and repair," the report said.
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Most studies into sex transactions without a monetary exchange show that the act itself is deeply rooted in the combination of poverty, Western consumerism, and the glaring economic gap between men and women.
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VICE met up with Ari in Manhattan to hear the inside story of why he made the legendary sneakers, and why he took on a legal battle in the name of conscious consumerism.
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Now, it's China's turn, but in its case, Beijing has woven consumerism into state policy — it's how President Xi Jinping has plotted to take the country to the next stage economically and geopolitically.
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This lighthearted take on the tarot from LA artist Ariel Hart draws inspiration from eternal symbol of childhood whimsy/consumerism Lisa Frank (read an excerpt of a recent interview with Lisa Frank here).
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Concerned about rising consumerism, King Bhumibol preached an ascetic lifestyle, even as the crown oversaw a property business that reaped billions of dollars from its ownership of prime Bangkok land, among other ventures.
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Since his election to the papacy five years ago, Francis has introduced a less formal, more pragmatic and progressive approach to his ministry, taking strong stands on issues like climate change and consumerism.
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In "Grandma," Ms. Olinghouse employs Clown Therapy — a personal improvisational practice of, in her words, "queering the clown form" — to address familial dynamics and offer a comical critique of consumerism and the media.
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Also on display by Yossi Milo were the visually enticing, bright works of Hassan Hajjaj, a Moroccan portraitist who hybridizes photography and sculpture to bring together pop culture, consumerism, and North African culture.
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On Itinerant's opening night, at the 19-month-old Greenpoint performance venue The Last Frontier, Jerico Domingo presented Consume Me, a work about US consumerism as it relates to ethnic food and identity.
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In the screed he left behind, he lambasts the consumerism and individualism of white Americans as much as he does "Hispanics," but decides it is the latter group who must suffer his anger.
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The Butterball talk line is one of the great marketing ideas of modern American consumerism, right up there with using a national baking contest to promote Pillsbury flour, or Clydesdales to sell Budweiser.
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In the screed he left behind, he lambasts the consumerism and individualism of white Americans as much as he does "Hispanics," but decides it is the latter group who must suffer his anger.
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"How often is a woman's body sacrificed on the profane altar of advertising, profit, pornography," he said, adding that the female body "must be freed from consumerism, it must be respected and honored".
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This is (in part) brought about by developments in consumerism and a marketing revolution: visitors (as consumers) and the museum (as the marketer) co-create the meaning to be experienced during the visit.
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Consumerism pulls on us every day, every time we watch TV, read online, see friends or strangers using products … and results in us owning too man possessions and getting too deep in debt.
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But something like Witt's diagnosis about the proliferation of choices for middle-class Americans today does seem right, if only more modestly because of developments in capitalism, consumerism, feminism, gay rights, and secularization.
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With the government strongly encouraging markets and consumerism (and Marxist ideology taking a backseat), video and performance art emerged, especially performances that tested the limits of the artist's ability to endure extreme conditions.
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Riding on the rampant consumerism of Chinese society and the indulgence of entertainment adopted by the Chinese govermentality, the TANK Art Festival does not provide an escape from these beguiling and overwhelming phenomena; instead, it carved out a space within consumerism that uses dark humor and more serious play, thought-provoking entertainment, and corporeal inquiry as alternative forms of criticism — a witty and brave act when such space has been collapsing, due to institutional and self-censorship, all around the world.
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There was a missed opportunity to offer an alternative to this culture of consumerism, of capitalism, that a lot of us were already disillusioned with, and the church was doing the exact same thing.
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Related Take a VR Journey into a Lush Polygonal Dreamscape [Premiere] [Premiere] An Artist Made a Series of Mugshots from His Own Face Artist Repackages Consumerism as Inventive Wood, Metal, and Marble CGI Worlds
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The vertical integration of retail pharmacy, PBM, and insurers fits with broader healthcare themes of expanded access, consumerism and cost reduction, Jefferies analysts said, adding that the deal chatter was not a complete surprise.
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Instead of shaming basic witches the way we once scorned basic bitches, we should hold them accountable when their consumerism slips into exploitation, then take time to reflect on our own seemingly basic behaviors.
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"Maybe there's not a need for a sequence that expresses female growth via consumerism, because we've come a ways in showing female self-improvement in films that isn't just about the exterior," says Yoshida.
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To do this, black people must critique the gravity of compliance and consumerism driven by capitalism, mind-altering marketing, corporate news, megachurches and generic mass education -- all of the mechanisms that shape independent thought.
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"We have fueled a consumerism with easy credit, advertising and social media, and people don't understand the financial trade-offs involved in their spending," said Rebekah Barsch, director of financial planning at Northwestern Mutual.
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Although industry operating trends have improved since mid-13, secular challenges, including a shift to lower-cost care driven by health insurer scrutiny and increasing healthcare consumerism, are a continuing headwind to organic growth.
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" He claims the organization's owners curbed editorial content they viewed as too radical, and accuses some employees and/or owners of practicing "performative 'activism' dipped in consumerism and 'woke' keywords used for marketing purposes.
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Similarly, Miracle on the 34th Street raises the issue of mental illness, while it also contrasts Santa Claus, the secular mystical figure of the season, with post-war American consumerism and loss of hope.
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"The depth of [his] knowledge of this world of rock 'n' roll, experimental thought, anti-consumerism and political possibility is wild — it's like the role was built for him," Ms. Chavkin said by email.
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The ruthlessly satirical video shows that Care Bears, Tom & Jerry, Transformers, Superman, Pinnochio, Super Mario, and the Masters of the Universe are all helpless against xenophobia, factory farms, poverty, war, consumerism, corruption, and war.
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Idealization and optimism are the dominant notes of the worlds of entertainment and consumerism in which we all are engulfed, realms that can seemingly assimilate just about any experience into a type of gratification.
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Ellen Kempner, who fronts this indie-rock trio from Boston, titled her latest record after an infamous American holiday, and on it, she addresses the sort of self-worth deficit exacerbated by rampant consumerism.
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The world had changed during the group's hiatus, and America in the wake of the financial crisis offered plenty of new material, from consumerism (explored on "Price Tag") to existential dread ("Bury Our Friends").
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Melgaard refers to getting rid of his clothing as "a purge," but says that word refers to the empty, addictive consumerism that plagues both art and fashion and not an act of personal catharsis.
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"On the margins, it's a shot across the bow, a reminder of the inter-relationships and support that are provided between countries for consumerism," said Robert Tipp, chief investment strategist at PGIM Fixed Income.
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"Shoes Etc." draws heavily from Pop Art and 1970s Photorealism, but is also reminiscent of Ashley Bickerton's sculptures from the 1980s, which used product logos to define identity in an age of mass consumerism.
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Geek culture became a new and intense form of consumerism, and superheroes, instead of being a nerdy fringe interest, became a standard model through which a plethora of fans could relate to pop culture.
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This has led to a lot of grouchy grumbling from us critic types, who have worried about whether fan consumerism, or the demands of what some say is "fan entitlement," will ruin artistic integrity.
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Beginning in the early 1960s, he and his Pop Art colleagues rejected Abstract Expressionism—an introspective mode that probed the psychological depths of the individual—in favour of art that portrayed the experience of consumerism.
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The move takes it one step closer towards founder Jeff Bezos' long-held ambition of becoming the "world's store," and it is unquestionably the central actor in the remaking of American, and perhaps global, consumerism.
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Americans have become notorious for "celebrating" Black Friday, risking life and limb to participate in a shameless homage to consumerism making the last Friday in November one of the biggest retail days of the year.
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Conscious consumerism (alternatively called ethical consumption) is today's catchall to cover consumer dollars invested in a host of progressive values: worker rights, animal rights, low-carbon footprint, recycled and/or renewable materials, organic, local, etc.
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Produced by his mother, Ryan's channel has perfected the art of this strange new genre, a mash-up of personal vlog and "unboxing" video, a blend of innocent childhood antics and relentless, often overwhelming consumerism.
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As pissed as you are that consumerism is interrupting your annual tradition of stuffing yourself with stuffing, you're pretty much forced to participate in the Thursday sales to avoid the big ticket items selling out.
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Remember, there is poverty, growing income inequality, the impact of global consumerism, a large segment of population without any secular education, constant political feuds and regular injections of extremist Wahhabi culture that extremists can exploit.
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The conceit of [Beran's] book is that these kids were raised fully aware that their prospects were dim culturally, that they didn't have a place, that the American Dream was garbage and consumerism was garbage.
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Featured artworks range from Ukrainian photographer Alexander Chekmenev's photo series documenting the lives of miners in Donbass, Ukraine, to German sculptor Olaf Metzel's eclectic installations, made of found objects, which reflect on industrialization and consumerism.
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The app still requires parental involvement and monitoring, which means you'll sometimes have to put your foot down on channels that seem to only fuel rampant consumerism in kids by encouraging them to buy toys.
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In addition to giving horror the imagery of the shuffling, bumbling zombie that's nevertheless fiendishly difficult to kill, Romero's latter zombie films were explicitly anti-capitalist explorations of modern consumerism and nihilism in American society.
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"Land of Milk and Honey" (1971), an experimental documentary that satirized French consumerism through man-in-the-street interviews, alienated critics so profoundly that the film was pulled from theaters two weeks after its release.
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"It grieves us to see the lands of indigenous peoples expropriated and their cultures trampled on by predatory schemes and by new forms of colonialism, fueled by the culture of waste and consumerism," Francis said.
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The excitement that I felt reading the article's opening paragraphs, which describe young people finding meaning in the natural world, quickly turned to disgust over the insidious means through which corporate sponsorships are driving consumerism.
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"Black Friday shopping isn't always based in naked, shameless excesses of consumerism," Kenneth Rogers, the associate dean of research in York University's School of the Arts, Media, Performance, and Design, told Goods reporter Nadra Nittle.
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It felt new and fresh, as if the consumerism that was starting to saturate popular music's themes and lyrics was going to create some new plane upon which everyone could better relate to each other.
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We've seen Lorelai relate to the wilderness through consumerism before, when she was dating the dad from "Twilight" for a hot second, plus ... if she'd read "Wild," wouldn't she know not to pack like that?
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Thirty-five repetitions of a cup of coffee, placed dead against a woman's face tinted orange, become a yawning little abyss of existential need, if not the multifaceted eye of an all-consuming new consumerism.
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Millennials especially have embraced this so-called FIRE movement — the acronym stands for financial independence, retire early — seeing it as a way out of soul-sucking, time-stealing work and an economy fueled by consumerism.
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Slovakia was then still part of Czechoslovakia and in the grip of a Communist government that had no interest in celebrating an artist it regarded as a drug-addled degenerate whose art work celebrated consumerism.
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Let me say that Wirecutter has never been about promoting consumerism — we're about buying the right things to fit your life and will last you a while, so you don't have to think about them.
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The dangerous new trend of fretting about the details of green consumerism is causing people to miss the big picture Did Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, "carbon offset" their private jet travel?
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There is, of course, nothing wrong with using possessions to express yourself, but the moment it becomes about acquisition rather than optimization, it ceases being self-care and enters the dark realm of mindless consumerism.
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The U.S. health industry is in the midst of a slow but seismic shift fueled by consumerism, a move toward paying for value instead of volume, technological advances, care decentralization and growing interest in wellness.
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His work, often very funny in a Nordic way, is essentially satiric—one of his sci-fi novels won the Philip K. Dick prize—and his book "Bónus Poetry" involves dry conceptual jokes about consumerism.
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The photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield investigates modern celebrity worship and the rampant consumerism that feeds into it by talking to bond traders, porn stars, child beauty pageant queens and the writer Bret Easton Ellis.
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Just as the especially poverty-loving Cistercian order of Roman Catholic monks played a major role in advancing mediaeval agriculture, Protestant piety helped lay the foundation for the industrial economy, big welfare states and individualistic consumerism.
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"It grieves us to see the lands of indigenous peoples expropriated and their cultures trampled on by predatory schemes and by new forms of colonialism, fueled by the culture of waste and consumerism," Francis said Friday.
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Its solution is complete human curation of video content, combined with a focus on videos that allow kids to explore their world, instead of being force-fed videos designed to promote consumerism, distraction, and bad attitudes.
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The pursuit of Kawaii traits is prevalent in many spheres of Japanese life and in the nation's consumerism, and it follows that it may also inform the character design within popular video games — including dating sims.
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And that's a very frightening thing to me because it causes us in the show to look at the body with the same level of thoughtless consumerism that we look at the rest of our planet.
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It's also easy to take jabs at that vague cliché about LA consumerism, but this is the deal: the reason people shop a lot is because there is an overwhelming amount of cool stuff to buy.
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Then throw in the hopeful eBayers who get there only to immediately list stuff for re-sale and you have a day that now seems to amount to little more than rampant consumerism fuelled by opportunism.
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Those hoping to pursue the parallel further, however, should know that the first two-thirds of the novel are devoted to Mr Houellebecq's other fixations: sex, male angst, solitude, consumerism, globalisation, urban planning, and more sex.
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It's also easy to take jabs at that vague cliché about LA consumerism, but this is the deal: The reason people shop a lot is because there is an overwhelming amount of cool stuff to buy.
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Naysayers will point to 21st century celebrity culture and reality shows as being the "fault" of the Spice Girls, but I'd argue their impact on pop music was way more far-reaching than modern pop consumerism.
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"She was very smart, very sound technically, and I think has by virtue of that experience, has a great orientation toward consumerism in health care, which we should all hope they make progress on," Daniels said.
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The apparatus of observational intelligence that dominates the web was established by private companies, and assesses our worth as individuals through the lens of consumerism, according to Shoshana Zuboff, as described in her book Surveillance Capitalism.
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Elizabeth McKenzie, luckily for us, is one such writer, and her third novel makes a screwball comedy of truly unlikely stuff (including, but not limited to: consumerism, pragmatism, parental narcissism, premarital jitters, mental illness, Big Pharma).
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A biodegradable yoga mat and an eco-friendly dog bed are just some of the items on show at the immersive "Naked House" exhibition in London that aims to challenge throwaway consumerism.
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Ignorance has become a form of weaponized refusal to acknowledge the violence of the past, and revels in a culture of media spectacles in which public concerns are translated into private obsessions, consumerism and fatuous entertainment.
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"Although she made art in Iran and about Iran, her art spoke to more universal issues — about gendered representation, about the politics of the everyday, about urban life, about the beauty industry and consumerism," she said.
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But it is one of the wrinkles of the new right that their lifestyles are familiar and modern — and so are some of their ideas: They bemoan rising inequality and a consumerism bereft of moral meaning.
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Mercedes-Benzes and Porsches in every size and color, yellow Lamborghinis and men and women decked out in high-end European fashion labels (not necessarily fakes) are only the most flagrant signs of a heady consumerism.
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By the time the Guggenheim show's single most spectacular work, Chen Zhen's "Precipitous Parturition," was completed in 1999, China had fully entered the global economy; the dangers of domestic consumerism had become a subject for art.
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Look to the declutter craze inspired by Marie Kondo; the zero-waste movement that celebrates reducing one's garbage output to one mason jar a year; and the trend away from consumerism with the Buy Nothing Project.
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The museum's senior curator at large, Jens Hoffmann, invited participants to consider the dollar store — and its proliferation since the Great Recession — as an emblem of widening economic inequality, globalization, complex supply chains and rampant consumerism.
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The platform offers endless choices, virtual connections and access to a world of information, but what this major-domo of the "internet of things" may deliver is reductive banter, mindless consumerism and a universe of trivia.
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I'm hard-pressed to find an argument against informed consumerism, but things like this make me nervous, because, by their sheer existence, the law sort of implies that there are ingredients of concern in your tampons.
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Like the rest of "conscious consumerism," eco-friendly furniture is pitched at the wealthy—a fig leaf, frequently, for an expansive lifestyle with a much larger carbon footprint than that of poorer individuals buying less sustainably.
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And in an age of visual communication where many seek to share both the journey to and the destination of an Instagrammable body and the discipline to get there, Peloton provides conspicuous self-actualization through consumerism.
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There's been a workshop on how to fight evictions (always a relevant topic in a rapidly gentrifying city) and a class on how to turn old t-shirts into panties to curb environmental waste and consumerism.
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Marketers realize this too: which is why there's now a glut of wellness and mindfulness products like fidget spinners and gravity blankets, as Rebecca Jennings pointed out in her piece on the rise of anxiety consumerism.
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Steak-umm After developing a confusing "woke" stance on everything from millennials to consumerism, this brand's trolling voice evolved so far beyond what one would imagine a frozen steak's to be that it's honestly a bit stressful.
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Netflix unveils fantastic full trailer for 'The Witcher' Weatherman's Halloween costume leaves his coworkers laughing hysterically Nick Offerman talks Ron Swanson memes and consumerism on 'Hot Ones' Seth Meyers mocks the Republicans' latest reaction to Trump's impeachment
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Even in an era of increased awareness about the horrific factory conditions, the fashion industry has failed to offer real solutions, instead offering us "buy one, give one" charity solutions that use consumerism to assuage our guilt.
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And for the first time in my decades of consumerism, I worried about the possibility of a recall, as I dimly remembered with a shudder a headline spotted years ago about strollers recalled because they dismembered children.
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The excessive makeup trends of neon eyeshadow, packed on blush, and dark eyeliner on both the top and bottom lash lines became quite popular and mirrored the excessiveness that was 80s culture in both consumerism and fashion.
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In spite of the stress and consumerism that Black Friday ushers in every year, Schwarz hopes the shopping site — along with the existing Chrome extension and app — can bring together all the good parts of the holidays.
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Creators Joe Murray and Cosmo Segurson lampoon breakneck consumerism in the two-and-a-half-minute clip as new "oPhones" come out by the minute and Rocko can't hold down a Frankenstein monster of a pizza taco.
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Are you tied to your material possessions because you have chosen to fill the empty parts in your life with consumerism and thus your soul is scattered among promotional T-shirts and expired tubes of body lotion?
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American consumerism itself—our throw-away culture—needs to change if we're to have any success in keeping global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, which is the more generous estimate of the tipping point for climate change.
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It's 2018 and I'm in the United States of America—if I can't hang out with digital reincarnations of my dead idols, what's the point of living in this hellishly beautiful mecca of celebrity-worship and consumerism.
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Like every parent, my sister has to choose every day which of her kids' magnificently awful desires will be satisfied, but the challenge presented by Christmas and contemporary consumerism is just too overwhelming for any one person.
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Walmart, once the undisputed icon of American consumerism, has taken a back seat to Amazon, as its e-commerce business transformed the retail landscape over the last decade, forcing brick-and-mortar stores to adapt or die.
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Previously, he founded a pair of computer design companies in Great Britain before he grew so disgusted with the abuses of Western consumerism and capitalism that he set out in search of a more holistic, sustainable lifestyle.
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It was years of living in the United Arab Emirates, a hub of consumerism, that instilled in them a love for malls and advertisements, and the kinds of things that might have looked alluring in an infomercial.
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"It isn't Ms. Kraninger's management experience that got her a giant promotion, it's her enthusiasm for Mick Mulvaney's anti-consumerism agenda that earned her this reward from President Trump," Warren said on the Senate floor last week.
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Russell Brand: Because we spend all of our time talking about problems—Donald Trump, contemporary life, capitalism and consumerism, ideology, the loss of personal connection, the breakdown of economic distance—and not much time talking about solutions.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers and the Romero zombie movies could be read as anxious warnings about the communist takeover, but they were also parables about American conformity: the dead groupthink of consumerism and Red Scare anti-communism.
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In fact, such superficial offerings as the paper's regular "36 Hours In _____" articles, which guide "travelers" on pass-through junkets through various target cities, help encourage the kind of consumerism-focused incursions that are killing places like Venice.
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"I realized that all of the stories I had been doing about culture, and the values of globalism and consumerism had been exported to other countries, and had led us to that crisis in some way," Greenfield says.
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In many ways, fashion internet has helped to foster uncomfortable conversations about integrity, fairness, and kindness, and provided the language and examples for many people to understand how systems of power and consumerism affect our creativity and humanity.
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At the same time, there were leaders like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher who were advancing a very individualistic notion of happiness and consumerism, and all of this together had a huge impact on our culture and politics.
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But to dismiss Devo as nostalgia compilation fodder is to overlook a body of work that feels prescient in both style and substance, rife with critiques of consumerism, right-wing ascendance, Midwestern paternalism, corporate monoculture, and geopolitical hysteria.
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Was it a slogan that awakened millions of young girls to basic ideas of gender equality, or a vapid catchphrase used by marketing men to sap their money, turning the political gains made by feminism into cheap consumerism.
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In the 1980s he reconnected, refashioning himself into a much more straightforward, and less interesting, pop star and something of a Thatcherite poster-boy; embracing consumerism was another side of his celebration of the individual over all else.
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"It's [the] best tax-advantaged vehicle to save for medical expenses and for other expenses in retirement," said John Young, senior vice president of consumerism at Alegeus, a technology company that helps employers provide HSAs to their workers.
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The first solo show in the United States of Sophia Al-Maria, an American-Qatari artist, writer and filmmaker, promises to be an immersive combination of artifice and reality, consumerism and human interaction — but don't expect to relax.
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This jittery national mood has given rise to what Rebecca Jennings at Vox has dubbed "anxiety consumerism"—the rise of a plethora of products, from fidget spinners to essential-oil sprays—meant to salve restless minds into calm.
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Although operating trends improved industrywide starting in mid-2014, secular challenges, including a shift to lower-cost care settings driven by health insurer scrutiny of hospital care and increasing healthcare consumerism, are a continuing headwind to organic growth.
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Like many others, I found one of her key insights — that rising bankruptcy rates weren't caused by profligate consumerism, that they largely reflected the desperate attempts of middle-class families to buy homes in good school districts — revelatory.
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Competition, consumerism and globalization worked out much better for some people than others, and the others, who saw their incomes stagnate, their dignified livelihoods evaporate and their communities wither, decided not to go quietly into that good night.
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To combat the growing existential threat, low- and no-buy initiatives have proliferated online, conscious consumerism has grown into a movement and younger generations are putting more and more money into so-called socially-conscious, or sustainable, investments.
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This fall marks two decades since the release of Fight Club, director David Fincher's dark celebration of toxic masculinity that also attacked, with two bruised and bloodied fists, consumerism and the pursuit of the so-called status quo.
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Those who knew Mr. McQueen well have always said that he often had his tongue lodged firmly in his cheek, happy to poke fun at rampant consumerism while indulging fully and unashamedly in the finer things in life.
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This is no surprise considering the genre has always been a vehicle for commenting on cultural anxieties—everything from race relations to consumerism to war atrocities to surveillance to having your mouth sewn to the anus of another person.
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The surface appeal of Sparrow's work is obvious, and her indefatigable production efforts capable of producing an army of cuteness too powerful to resist — but her work also contains embedded challenges about personal agency in the face of consumerism.
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He shuns fancy health clubs, fancy clothes (he says he shops at the Gap once a year) and fancy cars (he recently—and reluctantly—succumbed to middle-class consumerism, sort of, when he bought a used, black Chevy Blazer).
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The kids taking part might be too young to understand the symbolism of Gosha's Communist hammer and sickle logos, or the irony of worshiping a brand that defines itself by its rejection of consumerism, but does it really matter?
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Each work is retailed at roughly 2,000 times the price of the IKEA hanger, proposing a double poke at mass consumerism, and at the art world's propensity to transform dust to gold by validation of a gallery's white walls.
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Those who buy used gadgets are also part of a trend of anti-consumerism, which includes maintaining electronics to get more use out of them for a longer period, rather than discarding and constantly upgrading to the latest products.
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Amazon is also largely responsible for a fundamental shift in American consumerism: We now expect to have almost anything we want delivered to our doorstep within 280 hours—or even 24 hours, given changes Amazon is planning for Prime.
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For the better part of three decades, the killer doll known as Chucky has been the smiling, plastic patron saint of sadism—a literal metaphor for killer consumerism standing tall among the distinctly American ranks of cult-horror cretins.
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As a biting satire, the film is sharp on consumerism and shallowness: We live in a culture fueled by testosterone and greed, it posits, and between trendy restaurants and trendier night clubs, haven't we all been a little diminished?
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Sometimes it's maximal: Portia Munson has amassed a dizzying collection of pink items — toys, clothes, furniture and more — and turned them into an overstuffed bedroom that feels like a shrine to consumerism as well as a critique of it.
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The economy of the late '90s was characterized by exuberant consumerism; companies like Whole Foods had devised a way to make people feel better about the products they were buying as well as the people they were interacting with.
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The book finds Fred, Wilma, the Rubble family, and the other denizens of Bedrock struggling, to varying degrees, with the perils of encroaching modernity, opening the door for stories centering on consumerism, technological fear, religious zealotry, and even PTSD.
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It's also undertaken for various reasons, perhaps a mini act of rebellion against consumerism; or a product of self-assessed entitlement; sometimes it's just for thrill-seeking; and for some it's thought of as a desperate act of necessity.
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And we do live in such a world: lost in the endless stream of the internet, the mass media loop, the spectacle of consumerism, and our fragmented selves, unable to reclaim a safe, definite place in one reality or another.
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It's the self-fulfillment needs that are gonna come on, and you're doing it with a romantic consumerism whereby you're constantly doing this, checking if there is nothing better there, and basically the ritual of commitment becomes deleting the apps.
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In the sharing economy, ownership gives way to access, sellers and buyers are replaced by providers and users, social capital becomes as important as market capital, consumerism is upended by sustainability, and quality of life indicators become more important than GDP.
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It's a term that's caught on in the last 70 years, but it was not only predated by the green consumerism of the 223s, it's also the driving argument behind all consumer activism from the tea-in-the-harbor get-go.
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Seth Meyers mocks the Republicans' latest reaction to Trump's impeachment Emilia Clarke tries her best to lie to Jimmy Fallon, fails hard Nick Offerman talks Ron Swanson memes and consumerism on 'Hot Ones' Netflix unveils fantastic full trailer for 'The Witcher'
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And while renewable energy offers the only potentially viable future, it is also unlikely to sustain the sort of mass consumerism we are accustomed to—like three or more cars per household, SUVS or massive military projects like aircraft carriers.
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Again, this is by no means a feature that's exclusive to the iPhone 7, but it's an area where the device notably improves my life — to whatever extent shaving a few seconds off of shameless consumerism can improve one's life, anyway.
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My reaction, even when I know better, is illustrative of that, and I can't help but think about actor/writer Simon Pegg's essay on geek consumerism: We don't view an entertainment monopoly as a monopoly because it's #content that pleases us.
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At the risk of over-analyzing a fictional drink that causes bone pain but "tastes so good," the meme can be an analog for drug abuse, needless consumerism, intolerance, or any number of other dipshit behaviors we engage in regularly.
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Local firms' tight budgets and a lingering distrust of capitalist consumerism in Cuba means agencies such as WPP, which last year became the first global communications group to set up shop here, are unlikely to make big money any time soon.
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While food waste on a mass scale often occurs on the front lines of consumerism (places like grocery stores and supermarkets) or on an agricultural level, in the developed world, almost half of all food waste takes place in the home.
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In a minor holiday miracle, though, the cogs of consumerism have started turning again and the Star Wars drones will be available for preorder at some point before the holidays, although we don't know when, through Brookstone and other retailers.
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It's sad I even need to include this one, but there's a significant element in society that hates people who choose a different path in life…a path different from mindless consumerism, working until you're 93 and collecting social security.
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Sometime in 1952, Algren delivered a speech at the University of Missouri in which he spoke of the myth of American prosperity, the insanity of McCarthyism, the unending war economy, and the false promise of consumerism, dwelling especially on this last.
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In the middle decades of the twentieth century, he argues, economic policymakers abandoned workers and the health of the labor market in favor of a commitment to over-all economic growth, with redistribution as an adjustment and consumerism as its objective.
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REI hardly ever has sales, so despite where you stand on the matter of consumerism and Black Friday, you can probably save a good chunk of change on at least something you'll want or need in the coming year anyway.
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I missed Maguy Marin's "Ligne de Crête" ("Ridge Line"), which focused on consumerism, but caught Rachid Ouramdane's "Franchir la Nuit" ("Breaking Through the Night"), a work for five dancers and 30 children and adolescents, some of whom are refugees in France.
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The horses catch a brief glimpse of a couple of Rick and Morty-looking equines apparently on vacation, waiting in line for "the fastest, most thrilling ride of all time," situated in that den of pony sin and consumerism, Las Pegasus.
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Even with consumerism on the rise, DIY crafting filled the pages of popular magazines, such as aluminum foil snowmen and handmade paper ornaments to place alongside your Shiny Brites, the first glass ornaments to be produced in the United States.
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It's a deliberately unsubtle commentary on consumerism and the gendered symbolism of luxury, just as "Marilyn" (2009/2011) — a huge pair of high heels constructed out of saucepans — is a similarly in-your-face statement about women's subjection in the home.
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They're worried about the path being broken, about connections being severed — how reckless consumerism is changing the climate, how money is corrupting politics, how Big Ag is breaking the food system and flushing poison downriver to the Gulf of Mexico.
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Mr. Hayes kept his archive of consumerism — thousands of handouts promising, for most of a century, new and improved automotive wonders — inside discreet file cabinets and storage drawers in his meticulous four-room high-rise apartment near Madison Square Park.
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The Arc de Triomphe, a testament to military might that has become a monumental symbol of the extreme affluence and global consumerism in its shadow, was recently vandalized by so-called yellow vest protesters objecting to high taxes and income disparity.
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Old glory would, once again, trump new money; an elimination from a knockout soccer contest would once again become a morality play about the dangers of consumerism, the perils of knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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From images of go-go dancers at a Sunset Strip Bar Mitzvah to 13-year-olds casually flashing $100 bills, this early footage suggests Los Angeles itself birthed an ethos of boundless consumerism that has since metastasized across the globe.
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These early culture jammers' efforts focused on subverting the messages in hopes of neutering their effects, yet many years later it has become clear that Culture Jamming has become another marketing tool used deftly by commercial media to push consumerism further.
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If the mass consumerism and sprawl of Black Friday makes you sick, give it the bird and spend your day doing something that doesn't involve fighting complete strangers at Walmart or logging hours on your laptop buying stuff you don't need.
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The second section of the inaugural exhibition of the M+ Sigg Collection of contemporary Chinese art at ArtisTree concerns the post-Tiananmen era, when the government, while still maintaining control, encouraged urbanization and consumerism, and opened up to the wider world.
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What's interesting, though, is that it's an example of how pervasive anxiety consumerism — the industry that has exploded over the past decade by selling us stuff that claims to calm us down — has reached some of the most untouchable people in the world.
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Ortiz notes that modern companies are placing more importance on soft skills like improved customer-to-retailer interaction, and a nuanced understanding of how to talk about consumerism in 24.6...a topic that is loaded with cultural landmines, and opportunities to offend.
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Says the Nation's Willy Blackmore of the boycott's antebellum lineage, where abolitionists bought wool over cotton and maple sugar over cane: The same thinking—that it's better to buy products that we believe are made without exceptional suffering—animates some contemporary conscious consumerism.
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At best, the rising popularity of conscious consumerism, for instance, suggests that the buying public will at least spend their way to a healthier world; the big problem, though, is that individual monetary action — even when performed collectively — is only the beginning.
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But even though the destruction of war is foregrounded, what I really appreciated about her show is how it pushes back against a lack of concern for heritage, a lack which is the salient feature of both war and neoliberal consumerism worldwide.
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We have known for some time about the likely effects of China's transition from manufacturing and goods production to consumerism and a service-sector orientation — a transition that means the metrics analysts have depended upon to assess Chinese growth have to be recalibrated.
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The Walmart-owned streaming service Vudu is reportedly planning to peddle "shoppable content" within its ad-supported platform—which itself seems like a uniquely awful form of advertising before we learned that NBCUniversal was fully prepared to raise the bar on consumerism.
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The most suggestive aspect of his Westworld was the way its theme park setting anticipated the philosopher Jean Baudrillard, whose research into consumerism led him to see Disneyland as a model for a world in which simulacra and simulation would displace nature.
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Once upon a time, excusing yourself to go to the mall to shop, only to sit in Brookstone massage chair and huff a maple scented Yankee Candle all while drinking your Christmas supremacist Frappuccino was the best American consumerism had to offer.
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Patriotic fervor practically elevated consumerism to a religion after World War II, and today, we blur Jesus and Santa, ditch Thanksgiving for Black Friday, and mint new holidays (Cyber Monday) that give way to copycat holidays (Prime Day), all dedicated to buying stuff.
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Setting aside the larger concerns, here are some obvious Amazon technologies that make sense connected to Whole Foods and will probably make the combined companies a ton of money from those of us who have problems controlling our rampant online consumerism (*raises hand*).
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But Berry is unique in that much of his best work is narrative: Berry's songs are full of funny and profound descriptions of consumerism, romance, making out in cars, segregation, days at school, racial achievement, and being a fan of Chuck Berry.
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"I think it's a final realization that every business has a responsibility to do something about the voracious consumerism and waste we've had over the last 30 or 40 years," Delta Global CEO Robert Lockyer, who consults brands about sustainable packaging, told Forbes.
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Next up is the impact of technological change on consumerism, and the influence of air travel and television ownership on political awareness, typified by a PanAm stewardess's uniform, which was worn on commercial flights and military ones flying American troops to Vietnam.
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The influence of the era on consumerism, pop culture and political activism has been amply documented, but they mount a persuasive argument that late 1960s experiments in ecology, communal living and computing have been defining influences on environmentalism and the digital age.
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The "Feast" banquet is now a catering hall, complete with chafing dishes, for the wedding of Arrival and Host, and the desperately brassy "Train 2" conjures the chaotic world of contemporary consumerism, mounting to cries of despair from both voices and orchestra.
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The exhibition attempts to tackle many of these issues at once: the European debt crisis, the aftershock of the global financial recession that shook the continent, cultural politics in Greece, mass migration, war, class-based frustration, digital alienation, consumerism, mental health, and gender.
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The heartbreaking works of Karen Kilimnik recast the icons of consumerism and popular culture — from Kate Moss to drowsy dogs — as strangely deformed things: For a show last year at New York's 303 Gallery, she stuck cat stickers onto reproductions of baroque tapestries.
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Of course, all of this feels like some kind of joke that the company is in on, or maybe some extended piece of performance art whose thesis has to do with consumerism and viral fads and … I don't know, the meaning of life?
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The book's straightforward tone sometimes seems almost like therapy, but Leigh poses trenchant questions about the competing demands of motherhood and artistic careers and the way that our faith in technology and consumerism produces a kind of blithe certainty in would-be parents.
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For this Netflix comedy special, Chieng touches on his multicultural upbringing (born in Malaysia, raised in America and Singapore and schooled in Australia), the effects of rampant consumerism, and how he thinks the United States would fare with an Asian-American president.
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You really do get to see the worst of consumerism—from the scammers and shoplifters, to the people who are rude to you, to people really not caring that you just want to get home to your family just like they do.
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Then again, in hindsight it's amazing that a mainstream, ad-supported basic cable network gambled at all on such a scalding concept, which skewered corporate greed and consumerism and posited that a shadowy cabal was behind everything, pulling the strings and profiting handsomely.
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But they're still mining many of the themes they outlined in block capitals in their EP title: On The Seduction of Kansas, frontwoman Katie Alice Greer touches upon the American preoccupation with war, consumerism, and cultural icons, but never without a playful edge.
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Born to different generations, the performers dance and sing the same traditional Aita songs, but perform vastly different tropes of femininity: one prescribed by religion and Moroccan tradition, the other molded on a globalized hybrid of consumerism, social media, and Middle Eastern culture.
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We're hooked on convenience and all of these other things that are so much a part of mass consumerism, a kind of mindlessness that exists because of our very busy lives and the accessibility that we are afforded in this very great country.
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That said, we cannot address these recent hurricanes' crippling of the Caribbean without addressing the US militarism and business interests that have meddled in Caribbean affairs for over a century and the US consumerism that has rendered this region a mere playground for the privileged.
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Perhaps most known for his 21988 bestselling book, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, the writer and farmer has served as a moral beacon to Americans for half a century, warning of the dangers of consumerism, industrial agriculture, and the dissolution of rural communities.
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It's Super Bowl Sunday tomorrow, which means it's that time of year when millions of people gather in living rooms across the United States and put our differences aside in celebration of two time-honored American traditions: consumerism and binge eating greasy, cheesy snacks.
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The sad fact is that, when you wear a sweater with a cat wearing clothes, reindeer having sex, or Bitcoin design, you're submitting to the collapse of culture and identity, to consumerism—to exchanging your individuality for a symbol of creativity that is, ironically, generic.
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Related: Half a billion on Halloween pet costumes is latest sign of America's out-of-control consumerism Halloween, with its association with the powers of darkness, can allow many legends to flourish -- tales of dangerous outsiders, poisoned candy and other alleged threats to American life.
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Universal music education, a culture of egalitarian consumerism (think H&M and IKEA) and the ability to enunciate English lyrics more clearly than any native speaker help to explain why this small nation is the world's third largest music exporter, after Britain and America.
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"There is some very basic supply and demand math being executed here," says Paco Underhill, an environmental psychologist who has consulted with cosmetics companies for more than 27 years and penned several books on consumerism, including What Women Want: The Science of Female Shopping.
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More from the Financial Times Bono surveys a Red decade of 'conscious consumerism Deezer secures €100m from Access Industries and Orange Europe's tech start-ups need to scale faster India's smartphone sector boomed during 2015, becoming the world's fastest-growing market for the devices.
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From access to education and the influence of feminism, to consumerism and the rise of urbanization, he breaks down the reasons why people choose to to be single despite significant social pressure, and why they are happier and less selfish than their married counterparts.
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But the most hopeful thing you might see is a gathering of young people unfolding without any urgency to feed consumerism or the social media paradigm—a timeless portal into a pre-digital society that is still open, if you know where to look.
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Here's just one example of Westwood using her public platform to fight against ecocide: Though she's never been shy about sharing her beliefs, her latest comments on the harmfulness of rampant consumerism, especially when it comes to fashion, seemed to shock even her staunchest supporters.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With lampshades made by Indian women and trays from East Africa, H&M said on Tuesday that it had become the latest retail giant to back businesses with a mission to do good, as pressure mounts to end throwaway consumerism.
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Capitalism, of course, has been steadily eroding that traditional sense of identity in China since the early eighties, but for a long time change did not reach the countryside, whose brutal poverty made it immune to the tide of obsessive consumerism sweeping through the cities.
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"Expectations of a good monsoon have once again reinforced the confidence among market participants that the growth may come back on a good note, considering the consumerism in the rural side of the economy," said Saurabh Jain, assistant vice president-research at SMC Global Securities.
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Entering ON is like descending deep into a dream, and leaving it is like waking up, but luckily the events don't fade from memory, and instead reignite in the brain with every mention of appropriation, black objectification, and consumerism—and every SMPTE test rainbow.
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Playing with the aesthetics of consumerism, the neon light sculptures by James Akers, Kacie Lees, Stephanie Lifshutz, and Keenan MacWilliam point to consumer impulses and the suggested urgency to buy, but in this case, it's the destiny of Earth's creatures that requires immediate action.
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But she didn't let the style of the era overpower her essential Joni Mitchell-ness, with her words and song structures remaining fundamentally tethered to her longstanding style in their nontraditional structures and explorations of consumerism, televangelists, fame, and the Reagan era at large.
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Or, in the case of a video piece that'll be on view at the exhibition (and which you can watch above), an anthropomorphic Gold Bear played is offered up to the hellfire brought on by mass consumerism, capitalism, corn syrup, and other deliciously-evil stuff.
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And while standing ovations at Apple aren't new, one Twitter user slammed the applause for consumerism as it happened on the same day as the Global Climate Strike, in which as many as 250,000 young people took to Lower Manhattan alone to protest climate change.
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But I immediately noticed a copy of "Vile Days," a collection of columns by Gary Indiana written for The Village Voice in the 1980s chronicling the end of the avant-garde art scene in New York, the triumphs of vulgarity, consumerism and bad taste.
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Since the early aughts, environmental activism has moved away from what Shane Gunster, a media studies professor at Simon Fraser University, sees as "green consumerism" — encouraging drivers to avoid SUVs — to an emphasis on the structural causes of climate change, like the fossil fuel industry.
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Strange to say, that's not the oddest moment in "Made in China," an all-puppet musical that blends an unlikely romance between two lonely souls stranded in middle age with pointed commentary on the ties between America's voracious consumerism and human rights abuses in China.
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Some protesters aim to tie the whole Black Friday madness into their demonstrations: One group says it's planning to wheel empty shopping carts en masse in a New York City store to invite customers to pause their purchasing and consider the environmental impact of consumerism.
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As with you, probably, I know [Saunders] chiefly through his work, including "Pastoralia" and "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline," his satirical diagnoses of our post-post-modern condition: our theme park life, mass-produced existential writings, the communal pig-wallow in the mud pits of consumerism.
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Now, in the 21st century, with the inauguration of a new museology, and the engulfing of the civic culture by capitalism with its handmaidens, consumerism and heightened competition, museums have begun to recognize that in order to survive they must cultivate new and repeat visitors.
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