Sentences with phrase «around consumerism»

Barbara Kruger has been employing media effects and strategies to create her own political and social messages around consumerism, mass media, and feminism on billboards, buses, newspapers, buildings, and parks for the past four decades.

Again, the article was using more complicated English to speak about a very specific type of «gamer» — one that is toxic and identity revolving around their consumerism.

Not exact matches

What used to be a holiday that centred around spending time with family has now become consumerism crazed, with days like Black Friday encouraging excessive gift giving of toys which will be played with once and then not touched again.

The working group on the Anthropocene — part of the International Union of Geological Sciences — favours a date around 1950, when nuclear explosions and the start of modern consumerism started to have long - term effects on the biosphere.

Courtesy of Alexia Niedzielski and Elizabeth von Guttman at Ever Manifesto, a publication conceived with a mission to raise collective consciousness around issues of sustainability, we bring you an exclusive interview with fashion consultant Julie Gilhart on why sustainability matters and why conscious consumerism will define the future of fashion retail.

Marsden is charming, though he belongs in another movie entirely: the rest of the story around him becomes nothing but a hearty toast of approval to overblown weddings as an expression of mindless consumerism, and to the idea of feminine doormat - ery as the most appealing and attractive attribute a woman can exude.

«Fashion victim» is one of those dismissive metaphors lightly thrown around in reference to those overly susceptible to the industry's defining allure of vanity and consumerism, but in Fashionista Rumley renders it achingly tragic through the figure of April.

The holiday season, for all the mass consumerism and the cynicism that it inspires, is really about being happy, taking time to reflect on everything you have experienced the rest of the year and cherish the memories you have made and the people you have around you.

Since then, using a wide range of media including video, sculpture, performance, installation, and works on paper, she has generated an artistic practice centered around issues of ritual, race, consumerism, and the politics of identity.

He returned to San Francisco in 2008 and says, «I was able to reabsorb the influences of the built environment around us firsthand, particularly in Southern California, and present my interpretations via varied rendering styles and sometimes scale-less environments coupled with a non-cynical acknowledgment of American consumerism.»

I am deeply concerned about the world around me, and my work reflects my reactions to social issues such as war and consumerism by contrasting images from American advertisements and popular culture with images of rituals from around the world.

Artsy.net May 5, 2015 K. Sundberg Tom Green took cues from consumerism, politics, and the everyday around him to build Boschean, graphic landscapes of cavorting geometry.

The experience and its trace in time becomes more object - centred, its manifestation is a physical one; the private or public discourse around a culture for consumerism becoming embedded within it.

«These Western lifestyles of consumerism are spreading all around the world through products and services, media and trade policies.

When natural and human factors are looked at together, the rise in temperature is far more drastic, especially in the postindustrial years and around the 1960s when consumerism really started to take off.

They want to change people's minds about what «fashion» is: moving beyond fleeting fads and mindless consumerism to a smarter understanding of what goes into the textiles that we wrap around our bodies on a daily basis.

In this age of consumerism, particularly around the holiday season, sometimes its easy to forget that the things we've used the longest often have the most value to us — but the virtues of reuse just seem come naturally to some

Howard Bashman over at How Appealing picked up on an 8th Circuit case decided yesterday, ruling in favor of seven people who had been arrested in Minneapolis for protesting «consumerism» by dressing up like zombies and plodding around during the 2006 Aquatennial.

I'm not dissing it, but I don't feel the need to sit around and count my stuff, but if I'm going to purchase something, I have nothing against consumerism because we all need things to stay alive, but I'm very thoughtful about what I'm buying and why I'm buying it, and yeah, that's just kind of how it works.