Sentences with phrase «as consumerism»

The origin of longer - term trends (such as consumerism) that have created a way of life that is unprecedented, highly fragile, and unsustainable.

Departing from a number of important historical works, the exhibition presents a network of interdependent topical themes such as consumerism, value circulation, trade routes, and also how these abstract notions influence the individual's experience within a natural and urban environment.

Confronting issues as commanding and disturbing as consumerism or the objectification of women and more particularly the hyper - sexualization of the black female in Western culture, Mutu also tackles various other heretical topics, including fornication, mutilation, or gynecological diseases of the female organs.

As consumerism took over the systems of mass production implemented for the war effort, artists came to terms with unprecedented levels of commodification and mechanical reproduction.

Well - known in his native Norway for his large - scale public sculptures, Raddum has been compared to Jeff Koons for his ability to combine kitsch with a ruthless examination of issues such as consumerism and social dystopia.

In their highly political staged exhibitions, the collaborative examined such issues as consumerism, democracy, and the relationship of artist, art object, and viewer.

Born in San Antonio, Texas, Curry studied in Chicago and in Los Angeles where he still resides.Known Primarily for his large, flashy sculptures made of painted wood and aluminum, Curry's work is a puzzling exploration of popular culture as well as consumerism, and it features a rather dense range of aesthetic references — from graffiti and comics to Cubism and Pop Art.

Paul Kuniholm Pauper's diverse artistic practice arises amidst issues such as consumerism, corporatocratic evolution, anthropological inquiry overlain popular culture, psychological therapeutic mechanisms, sound language, noise identity, compensatory behavior and durational Art, often in response to self - instigated antipathy toward social media and media distortion of identity.

The sculptural works of Yuken Teruya and Jodie Carey - and the way in which both artists engage with their raw materials - introduces new ways to consider complex concepts such as consumerism and globalisation, and their impact on the individual.

The moviemakers address social concerns such as consumerism, waste, interference from big business, lack of physical fitness, institutionalized childcare and the addiction to screens and virtual worlds.

As consumerism continues to rise, so those the functionality and style continue to merge in some areas and grow further apart in others.

While some attention has been drawn to the Christian critique of sex and violence in television programming, the critique must also include other dehumanizing aspects such as consumerism, limited access for such groups as minorities and older people and the continuing exploitation of children and youth.

Not exact matches

That was the message of a talk by Dr. Miriam Tatzel at the American Psychological Association's 122nd annual convention, which was held recently in Washington, D.C. Presenting her research to the assembled psychologists, Tatzel stressed the importance of playing down consumerism as a route to fulfillment and boiled down the research on the subject into a handful of scientifically validated principles to follow for greater happiness.

And for the most part we refer to it, and general consumerism, as a dark and dismal part of society.

Just keep the above strategies in mind and you can keep up with the changing hearts and minds of customers as this new era of consumerism takes shape.

Sears grew dramatically, as did consumerism, because it did one thing above all else, it simplified people's lives at a time of increasing socioeconomic complexity by eliminating the friction in a transaction and replacing it with a trusted experience.

It arguably is, but in fact the benefits of conscious consumerism are not as obvious as many would have you think.

So just a small technology, a product, a brand creating that kind of buzz between two countries that really have not been able to come together as peoples and as governments, and whereas the consumerism is bringing those two countries together.

But as the movement overspills Wall Street, he describes it as the most successful in the 22 years he and his magazine have been advocating «culture jamming,» which originally sought to subvert consumerism.

Importantly, while millennials are most known for appreciating environmentally friendly consumerism such as this, going green is an ongoing trend still gaining traction among all generations.

The e-commerce giant, already the largest retail advertiser in the U.S., is cranking up its spending even more as it strives to harness all of consumerism and to lead in new categories such as grocery and fashion.

Personally, I like to avoid the whole herd mentality of pointless consumerism — I find it as stupid as the herd mentality of religion.

While evangelical Christianity in growing rapidly in mainland China, some statistics indicate that Catholicism is not doing nearly as well in a cultural environment in which many people are seeking answers to life's questions that go beyond consumerism.

I've been thinking often lately about the materialism which seems to pervade every aspect of our North American society, and more often, about the materialism and consumerism that has spread to the church as well.

She first excavates the roots of our corporate heartlessness» in our culture's disordered desires — what she describes as our culture's «addiction to consumerism,» its «idolatry of money» and its «massive failure of compassion» for other creatures and the earth.

which centers on an obsession with consumerism isn't as ironic as the creators may have intended to be.

This traditional mission of totalistic renewal has been forgotten in recent years as the character of our churches has reflected a secular culture of economic consumerism.

Consumerism and privatization undermine the very institutional basis of democracy — that is, the structure of voluntary association, the civil society, without which democracy becomes, as Tocqueville warned, democratic despotism or the rule of an economic aristocracy.

By restricting the activities of foreign organizations and what are seen as non-Russian forms of religious belief, the Russian government has consolidated its religious support and made an intentional (and enforceable) display of Russian cultural unity in the face of the external pressures of consumerism, individualism, and secularism.

- ism does not mean a word is a religion or else consumerism, commercialism would be religions, as well is medievalism, pointillism and voluntarism.

The Club of Rome called for «a Copernican revolution of the mind», which abandoned the commitment to endless economic growth and set instead as its goals zero population growth, a leveling - off of industrial production, increased pollution control, and a shift from consumerism to a more service - based economy.

Bases of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church's official document outlining its position on social issues, calls grave social ills, such as alcoholism and drug addiction, «a retribution for the ideology of consumerism, for the cult of material prosperity, for the lack of spirituality, and the loss of authentic ideals.»

The widespread promotion of the products of western capitalism, coupled with increased availability of goods and the sustained cultivation of desire through commercial media, has led to a profound influence of the philosophy of consumerism in western societies and increasingly in developing countries as well.

As long as there is the pressure, often unspoken, for secularism, consumerism, and individualism to become the new bedrocks of Russian culture, this pressure will be resisteAs long as there is the pressure, often unspoken, for secularism, consumerism, and individualism to become the new bedrocks of Russian culture, this pressure will be resisteas there is the pressure, often unspoken, for secularism, consumerism, and individualism to become the new bedrocks of Russian culture, this pressure will be resisted.

It is instructive to note how significant an influence consumerism has had as a philosophy, even as a hermeneutical lens through which Christian faith is understood and interpreted.

Cavanaugh, who teaches at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, has also written Theopolitical Imagination: Discovering the Liturgy as a Political Act in an Age of Global Consumerism (T & T Clark) and coedited The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology (Blackwell).

It is sometimes suggested that the future of society in the West» and so, perhaps, the world» is open to three «options»: Christianity, Islam, and a consumerism so devoid of transcendent values as to be, inevitably, nothing but a pervasive and pitiless nihilism.

As a high - tech version of the ancient vice of avarice, consumerism is indeed a monstrous evil.

Eventually, Q will need to address the culture's unavoidable fault lines as well as its own complicated (and sometimes contradictory) relationships with consumerism and relativism.

She writes: «The «sad effects of this blind submission to pure consumerism,» John Paul stated, are a combination of materialism and restless dissatisfaction as the «more one possesses the more one wants.»

«Drugs, as well as pornography and other forms of consumerism which exploit the frailty of the weak, tend to fill the resulting spiritual void».

which also concerns the individual».41 She illustrates this as follows: «It is not enough to criticize property rights... so long as we, as «powerless» individuals, are not able to clarify how we are entangled in the general structures, that is, how we profit from the structures and how we conform to the introverted norms that we regard as self - evident — for example, the norms of achievement, consumerism, reasons of state — and pass them on to others, even when we reject them privately and verbally.

As ecologism becomes more widespread, consumerism will decline with no loss to the real quality of life.

I hope we push back against celebrity and consumerism, I hope we live into our birthright as a prophetic outpost for the Kingdom.

Economism certainly supports consumerism since it regards the increase of consumption as the supreme value.

'» There is much and legitimate criticism of consumerism, and there are few consumerisms more spiritually and intellectually debilitating than to be consumed by politics — as in «The personal is the political.»

As Phillip Cary writes in «Good News for Anxious Christians,» consumerism is based on the need to create a sense of need for something new or better, something you can only get at this church, or that church.

For the foreseeable future, however, consumerism - understood as inordinate concern for things material - will be driven by extreme deprivation.

Rather, it is to work honestly and lovingly with that growing body of righteous Christians who look to Judaism as to an older sibling, who are seeking to expiate Christian guilt for the Holocaust, and who recognize that Christianity and Judaism need each other desperately if religion in 21st - century America is to offer a compelling alternative to unbridled consumerism, self - centeredness and arid secularism.

Until we adults level the same criticism toward ourselves as we do toward children, we will not get very deep into a discussion of consumerism.