Sentences with phrase «at consumerism»

One Beach Plastic is the work of two artists that see plastic as an opening into a pinpoint look at consumerism and the whole of human culture.

«Noob at consumerism»?

Similarly, other productions, such as Billy Elliot, focus very much on the reality of the politics at the time of the Miners Strike in 1984 and shows such as We Will Rock You and Chicago The Musical looked at consumerism and mass identity and the power of the media respectively to focus on just a few of their themes.

The presentation encourages discussion on what Christmas is about and looks at consumerism and spiritual ideas.

«Autofac,» with Juno Temple and Janelle Monae, is a nicely contained postapocalyptic look at consumerism (and, yep, technology) that certainly makes you feel like the omnipresent, authoritarian and worrisome company at the center of it all is Amazon, so give Amazon Video a little credit for getting that one past Jeff Bezos.

While Anderson's usual traits are accounted for — a conspicuous, often discordant soundtrack; cracks at consumerism; strokes of surrealism — Punch - Drunk Love is Anderson's first feature - length dance with romance.

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 when the world's hippest consumers are willing to make consumerism personal again, marketing gets a second chance at relevance.

We would be agape with awe, look grimly at our Woolco tube socks and the terrible compromises Canadians make in the name of affordability and dream of the day we could join in all that uncompromised consumerism.

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.

At the same time Aetna, along with other large national insurers, has been converting from largely wholesale operations focused on the employer to more retail operations infused with an emphasis on consumerism.

#OptOutside is the name of the sticky social game and it's catching fire fast on Twitter and Facebook, keeping pace with a steady gush of media coverage surrounding the company's «shocking» jab at over-the-top Black Friday consumerism.

«With the Canadian economy in recession, it is of no surprise the period characterized by consumerism has ended,» wrote Diana Petramala, an economist at TD Financial Group, in a May 2009 report that conveyed the spirit of the time.

This wasn't about consumerism very much at all.

Like it or not, the middle class became global citizens through consumerism — and they did so at the mall.

The Christian artist who wraps himself in sunbeams and daffodils fails to be Christian at all, producing a bloodless, lifeless art that pleases a middle - class consumerism, not an authentic Christian encounter with a hurting world.

At the same time, they are hesitant to adopt Western values to the extent that individualism becomes the most important cultural ideal, and consumerism becomes the defining modus operandi for all walks of life.

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).

The burden of proof that the church offered a compelling alternative to entertainment and consumerism lay at its own doors.

The truth is that we are all part of the problem when we capitulate to our culture's fascination with greed, materialism, consumerism, entitlement, irresponsibility, their assertions that we are what we own (or charge on the credit card, at least).

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.

In what way do we Christians, if at all, actually resist consumerism?

At another level, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory reflects Balmer's attempts to come to grips with the meaning of his own fundamentalist past and to identify «those kernels of truth and insight into the human condition» that he suspects are embedded within the evangelical message but that have become distorted by consumerism and other corrosive elements of American culture.

In this respect, immigrant youth may in some cases have a certain advantage because of their greater understanding of the need to work at making sense of their situation and to form the habits and attitudes — the social capital — that will enable them to resist the floods of relativism and consumerism.

Yet the song hinted at a surprisingly biblical theme: The places we often seek satisfaction (notably for The Rolling Stones, sex and consumerism) fail to satisfy.

I can't for the life of me recall what book I read it in, but I remember an author saying once that he raised his children to be wary of consumerism by teaching them to laugh at commercials.

Cavanaugh, a professor of theology at the University of St. Thomas, examines four economic realities: the free market, consumerism, globalization, and scarcity.

There has got to be a balance between just going with the flow of consumerism and keeping up with the Joneses, and the hypercritical nature of being the «BEST» at everything.

Getting clothing and gear for your kids at KC saves you money (most people find much more than $ 5 or $ 10 worth of items at each swap) while simultaneously cutting down on consumerism.

Like most Americans, I have a bit of a consumerism problem (I could bore you at this point with my long academic ramblings on the subject... but I'll spare you!).

But Clemens is by no means the only designer elevating the ordinary emblems of mass consumerism to extraordinary heights — or at least pasting them on t - shirts.

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.

This is how, at the level of the most basic yearning for human companionship, consumerism can potentially fuse with a neoliberalist ethos, eliciting a flexible consumer who can desire whatever's required and accept that yearning as authentic.

Couldn't wink at anyone either, all I could do was add to favourites, so for that one message I got and couldn't read, that may have been my true love will now be left to the ignorance of consumerism.

In recent years he has preached at both megachurches and led small workshops on topics including faith and consumerism.

It gives the idea of consumerism run wild the short shrift that it deserves (and the cynicism that an intervening quarter - century demands), touching on the original's explanation of the zombies» affinity for the shopping mall and the human heroes» delight at their newfound material wealth before becoming a bracing action film that, like Marcus Nispel's reworking of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the source of which didn't need updating as much as Dawn arguably did), is more firmly entrenched in the James Cameron Aliens tradition than the Seventies institution of disconcerting personal horror film.

It looks at not only climate change, but also war and how the Church, represented by Abundant Life, is more akin to consumerism than something to nourish the spirit or comfort the downtrodden.

Third, please introduce the notion of «radical hope» by daring to speak of the possibility and necessity of a much more ethical economy that does not rely on fossil fuels (national or foreign), rampant consumerism (and unrestrained waste production), profitable militarism, (subsidized) competition, the commodification of life, the financialization of the globe, the relentless destruction of the environment, the exploitative division of labor at home and abroad, siege consciousness, or the elimination of dissent.

Yes, some blame may fall wrongly on the publisher, but I think at this stage of electronics consumerism, even not - very - savvy consumers understand that older devices won't work (as well or at all) with new purchases.

Regular readers of Boyle's fiction will recognize a few of his pet themes at work here: the consequences of thoughtless consumerism, the obsession with youth and physical beauty, and the precariousness of mental stability.

In a culture such as ours that is dominated by consumerism, the shopping temptation stares at us from every corner.

US, on the other hand, has had consumerism for decades, and the cycle is reversing in favour of a lot of people pursuing Financial Independence at the cost of extreme frugality.

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Consumerism Commentary provides listeners with a peek at fascinating topics like entrepreneurship (episode # 171), minimalism (episode # 135), and pursuing a debt - free lifestyle (episode # 131).

In retrospect, one shouldn't be surprised when one looks at the root of the word «industry» and the whole purpose is to provide quality goods to consumers and also monopolize on consumerism itself; one is more important than the other, depending on whom you ask.

The objects made by Lins — a Bell telephone, a VKhUTEMAS model, a table built to the specifications set out by Enzo Mari in his open - source manual Autoprogettazione of 1974 — are at the same time models for some other form of artistic production: things beyond the categories of craft, art, design, sculpture, image, capitalist consumerism, or communist nostalgia.

In his solo exhibition Moonlighting at Loudhailer Gallery in Culver City, Greene conjures up sensibilities that remind one of the creative explosion that occurred during the Weimar Republic, the subject of a recent exhibition at LACMA, and a time (1919 - 1933) when Germany was rebuilding itself after World War I, soldiers were coming home maimed or not at all, consumerism was on the rise, women had more independence, and sexuality become a more free, fluid thing to explore.

Drawing from the art - historical lineage of cubism, graffiti, cartoons, figurative painting and gestural abstraction, and appropriating subjects from mythology, advertising, print culture and consumerism, Aaron Curry's eagerly awaited survey exhibition at CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux next summer is as much about the breakdown of the human condition as it is the absurdities that define the perils of human evolution.