Sentences with phrase «by a consumer culture»

We have been changed by the consumer culture.

We live in a land that has made the accumulation of stuff a divine right AND a divine attribute surrounded by a consumer culture that has «shoved us into it's mold» while we weren't looking.

Christmas has become so thoroughly co-opted by consumer culture that we seem to forget that the story does not belong to JCPenney or Amazon.

Most of us are so mesmerized by consumer culture that few will adopt these extremes.

The sculptural designs are conceptualized by critically acclaimed internationally recognized contemporary artists who are interested in exploring the possibilities presented by consumer culture.

Considered irrelevant and subsumed by consumer culture and our current privileging of virtual space, in our adult world we so rarely encounter an environment where intuition and imagination are so directly and genuinely invoked.

His work often utilizes his mother's schematic drawings / inventions of ordinary objects influenced by consumer culture, medicine, fashion, Surrealism, mathematics, sex, philosophy, astrology, and Matrilineal concerns.

His body of work The Matriarch's Rhapsody utilizes his mother's drawings and music recordings as a primary resource, influenced by consumer culture, medicine, fashion, surrealism, math, sex, astrology, philosophy, and matrilineal concerns.

By combining references to art history with modern surfaces and materials, she explores fine art aesthetics within the design of daily life, especially the way it has been appropriated by consumer culture.

New York artist Lichtenstein began making paintings inspired by consumer culture as a reaction against the emotional involvement of Abstract Expressionism.

Combining references to art history with modern surfaces and materials, the artist explores fine art aesthetics within the design of daily life, specifically the ways it has been appropriated by consumer culture.

We are affected by the consumer culture and society around us.

Not exact matches

But if you look closer, you'll see I'm always trying to hack culture by studying consumer activity and understanding where, why, and how people buy and sell.

«I'd also have everybody kind of get focused on a similar mission and drive a culture to improve health care costs by lowering them, drive greater levels of effectiveness overall and making sure that we are driving a great deal of consumer satisfaction.»

Until, of course, you remember the culture - induced myopia I described yesterday: Myerson still has the Ballmer-esque presumption that Microsoft controlled its own destiny and could have leveraged its assets (like Office) to win the smartphone market, ignoring that by virtue of being late Windows Phone was a product competing against ecosystems, which meant no consumer demand, which meant no developers, topped off by the arrogance to dictate to OEMs and carriers what they could and could not do to the phone, destroying any chance at leveraging distribution to get critical mass...

GFI's research indicated that «clean meat» had 20 - 25 percent higher consumer acceptance than «cultured meat,» and these results were corroborated by ACE's follow - up study.»

GFI's research indicated that «clean meat» had 20 — 25 percent higher consumer acceptance than «cultured meat,» and these results were corroborated by ACE's follow - up study.»

GFI sees value in market research, and may conduct some themselves; they have already conducted a short survey to identify the most appealing name for cultured meat.96 They would also be interested in research done to identify other factors important in promoting plant - based and cultured meat, such as whether consumers are more likely to respond well to promotion related to health benefits or to animal welfare.97 They plan to conduct such research and will encourage its use by companies.

The proliferation of communication technologies, the changing structure of everyday life (due largely to technology), the growing complexity of family life, the changing understandings and norms of sexual conduct and the expansion of consumer culture (as evidenced by unprecedented levels of consumer debt) are only a few of the conditions that present pastors with new kinds of demands.

(12) The consumer orientation of electronic culture and the expansion of widely advertised and available alternatives has brought a shift away from a committed and sacrificial relationship to organically - integrated communities towards one where as individuals we construct our own individualised networks characterised by tentativeness and usefulness.

Culture became and ideological apparatus in the hands of the market forces to mold people as consumers in society by invading the inner - core of subjectivity of every individual.

Despite the hollow moral platitudes offered by countless university administrators, the essential justification for the university is its technological usefulness, its crucial hegemonic role in the shaping of the consumer and the therapeutic culture.

By NOT going to a church service that is designed for consumer - oriented church - goers, I continue to detox my deep - seated issues (52 years worth) about not just attending a church, but about the institutionalized church culture in America.

Because our culture has for so long insidiously taught citizens that the good life is measured by their economic success and participation in the consumer society, it is small wonder so many believe that politics is a burden that conflicts with their pursuit of what really matters.

As a college professor, I've been blessed by living in abundance with very little real work, but I haven't used my leisure to be a voracious consumer of French culture, as our libertarians or bourgeois bohemians might have predicted.

In a ritually impoverished society, television lends ritualisitic elements by broadcasting civic ceremonies, sports events, and even commercial advertisements.5 Such programming provides the images and iconography by which individuals become connected to the shared values of our consumer culture.

While we may not be able to extricate ourselves from either our consumer culture or our heritage in print, at least we can begin to liberate ourselves from our reliance on books and paper in our worship by recovering skills of memorization, recitation, and narration.

Buy, Buy Baby: How Consumer Culture Manipulates Parents and Harms Young Minds By Susan Gregory Thomas

Citing books by Al Gore and Bill McKibben to support his critique of our consumer - oriented culture, French emphasizes the crucial role churches can and should play in sensitizing us to the need for sacrifice if we are to reverse the destruction.

Producing «clean» meat by culturing cells — instead of raising or slaughtering animals - is a new frontier in food production that will require consumer education and transparent labeling.

Beyond threats associated with any specific product or contaminant, the most pressing challenge is to establish, promote and support a food safety culture, one in which all consumers both expect and have access to healthy food, regardless of where or by whom it is produced.

GFI sees value in market research, and may conduct some themselves; they have already conducted a short survey to identify the most appealing name for cultured meat.96 They would also be interested in research done to identify other factors important in promoting plant - based and cultured meat, such as whether consumers are more likely to respond well to promotion related to health benefits or to animal welfare.97 They plan to conduct such research and will encourage its use by companies.

The socialisation once provided by family, church and other groups is no longer there and is too often replaced by MTV and a consumer culture that tells young minds that respect is gained by the acquirement of goods, rather than earned.

Culture, communications and creative industries minister Ed Vaizey explained that FM would always be used by smaller stations, but said consumer demand would be the key factor in deciding the pace of the transition.

The latest research is part of a wider project at the University, led by Sussex psychologist Dr Helga Dittmar, that is systematically examining the impact of consumer - culture ideals on children's personal and social well - being.

«What we found was another example of a downward spiral — those rejected by peers then turned to consumer culture, which actually worsened, rather than improved, those relationships.»

And by the way, there is no way to get to zero emissions with low - carbon buildings and mass transit, while we continue the consumer culture.

By being a savvy consumer, you can reap the many benefits of balsamic vinegar that Mediterranean cultures enjoyed for centuries.

This year's BoF 500 special print issue is our in - depth guide to Generation Next, a cohort that's set to become a powerful driver of consumer culture, and expected to account for 45 percent of the global market for personal luxury goods by 2025.

Unsurprisingly, Little Nicky isn't a satirical indictment of the consumer culture of the twenty - first century but rather follows the familiar mould that usually involves the audience being introduced to an unlikeable half - wit, who surprises both us and inexplicably a beautiful woman by improving and getting slightly less detestable over the first half of the film, before losing our confidence with a stupid mistake and then winning it back again with a rousing finale.

The culture of the Big 5, which was built by gobbling up successful small presses and rolling them into imprints, left the door wide open for Amazon, a company that dared to sell direct to consumers, innovate the way we read, and pay authors a living wage.

Second, and perhaps more telling of how books are perceived in our culture, Williams points out that the assumed privacy of an ebook purchase, followed by the privacy afforded by reading it on an e-reader, may lead consumers to purchase a title that they don't have to be seen walking up to the bookstore register with.

As corporations vie more and more aggressively for young consumers, popular culture — which traditionally evolves from creative self - expression that captures and informs shared experience — is being smothered by commercial culture relentlessly sold to children by people who value them for their consumption, not their creativity.

From this perspective, Amazon is a savior: «The culture of the Big 5, which was built by gobbling up successful small presses and rolling them into imprints, left the door wide open for Amazon, a company that dared to sell direct to consumers, innovate the way we read, and pay authors a living wage.

The Gamescom award, organized by Digital Gaming Culture Foundation, honors the best games and products premiering at the consumer expo.

Experience worldwide CGM (Consumer Generated Media) culture through various websites by Crypton Future Media, Inc..

UNBRANDED: REFLECTIONS IN BLACK AND A CENTURY OF WHITE WOMEN Selected by Stephanie Cristello Foreword by Janet Dees and Tamar Kharatishvili > click here to download PDF For over fifteen years, conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas has consistently explored the representation of stereotypes within mass media and American consumer culture, particularly as it relates to African --LSB-...]

Ground Floor Gallery's «Women at Work» features three Brooklyn - based woman artists — Natalie Baxter, Paola Citterio, and Leslie Tucker — whose work questions traditionally masculine or feminine labor roles and materials by reinterpreting family histories, consumer culture and politics.

The show also taps a burgeoning segment of art, as in photographs by Lauren Greenfield — the repurposing of consumer culture as esthetic overkill.

With more than 200 pieces by 70 artists, the display starts in the 1960s when printmaking became popular, reflecting the values of consumer culture by being readily available, cheaper and bigger than other artistic mediums.