Sentences with phrase «by consumerist»

Influenced by the likes of French sculptor Auguste Rodin and Darwin's theory of evolution, Yong Ho Ji infuses a powerful, primeval intelligence into materials that were once extracted from nature and transformed by consumerist processes.

In particular, the film explores the commercialisation of childhood, and a corresponding tendency to infantile behaviour in adulthood, bringing to life the «little monsters» created by consumerist desire.

Unfortunately, our views on adoption can be colored by our consumerist culture.

When Christians spend the Christmas season frantically stressed by consumerist pressures, we echo the values of the empire that Jesus sought to undermine.

On the other hand, Cary writes, «The church, when it's not seduced by consumerist spirituality, is in the business of cultivating ordinary Christians...» Try that for a mission statement.

«We can no longer sit idly by and watch poor decision after poor decision deeply affect our customers and Southwest Airlines,» SWAPA president Captain Jon Weaks said in a statement obtained by Consumerist.

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After being seized by Swiss police earlier this year, your favorite consumerist bot is back online for a new exhibition.

by Lori Gottlieb — a single mother who conceived her only child with donor sperm rather than miss out on motherhood as she has on marriage — is a frank and excruciatingly personal look into some of the sexual revolution's lonelier venues, including the creation of children by anonymous or absent sperm donors, the utter corrosiveness of taking a consumerist approach to romance, and the miserable effects of advancing age on one's sexual marketability.

That the incessant pollution of soil and water by the heavy metals and other toxins produced by the monstrous consumerist voracity of our way of life is a devastating reality?

And of course that class has imbibed the values of the capitalist consumerist society too much to bring about a new society embodying values of personal freedom, social justice and ecological wholeness by themselves any more.

Kwanzaa, most readers will recall, is a recently contrived African American seven - day celebration that runs from December 26 through January 1, and has been much criticized by blacks and others as a commercial gimmick designed to demonstrate that blacks can be as consumerist as anybody else.

Only by getting outside of ourselves and our narrow consumerist vision can we discover the world of good that is ours.

I've reduced my environmental impact by taking public transportation to work, significantly cutting my meat intake, and resisting my consumerist impulses.

by Walter Chaw George Romero's Dawn of the Dead is a groundbreaking satire of our consumerist state, says the party line, the first film to be shot in that new phenomenon of a shopping mall and full of cogent commentary on how capitalism has become at once a Skinner box and religion instead of merely an organizing principle.

Holed up in this consumerist dream space, they play dress - up, host a dinner, are visited by ghosts, watch coverage of their attack on display model TVs, and act out fantasy lives — only to have it all come to a halt when Nocturama reveals itself as the bleak, desperate genre movie it's been all along.

This is the same dishonest gesture offered by standard Miramax period «art - movie» fluff such as Shakespeare in Love, an attempt to flatter us that we're somehow getting something serious and educational, not simply consumerist and sensational.

But it made most of the international press, apart from a few aficionados of Asian cinema, uneasy; they were confounded by the complicated plot and overflowing cast of characters, and in some cases directly repelled by the frank exposures of childish macho bluster and hollow consumerist excess that reflected so accurately the frantic nonsense of the Cannes festival itself.

Despite its procedural, hour - by - hour construction, Nocturama is more allegorical: a tragedy about kids vaguely lashing out against cultural values deeply ingrained within them, until being drawn — like the shambling corpses of George Romero's Dawn Of The Dead — to a consumerist temple that may become their tomb.

Local and small business products are appealing to mindful consumerists, and you can put together a grassroots campaign to build buzz for your book by selling it in local establishments like cafes or home décor boutiques.

I am reminded of this by a recent post at The Consumerist that shared the apparently non-obvious tip that Letting Mortgage Go Delinquent To Qualify For Short Sale Damages Credit.

The video game publisher Electronic Arts was named, for the second year in a row, «the worst company in America» by readers of The Consumerist.

EA beat such companies as Bank of America, Comcast, Anheiser - Busch, AT&T, and Ticketmaster in Consumerist's poll, and by no small margin: 78 percent of the overall vote by readers.

Bargain - hungry gamers everywhere have reacted in delight to the latest Steam sale, excited by the possibility of once again acting as blind consumerist pigs for big publishing houses.

Whereas most manufacturers try to make products that will be marketable by appealing to preferences and prejudices, high modernists rejected such consumerist attitudes in order to undermine conventional thinking.

Its dream of equal opportunity and social mobility were dependent upon quick fire «images zapping by,» the consumerist drive urging one to buy more, seek more, attain more.

In the first exhibition, american apparel (2009), Josephine Meckseper examines the hidden violence behind our most seductive consumerist fantasies — those sown and cultivated by US car companies.

By dressing these foam lengths in shop - bought accoutrements and clothing, he attributed each with certain humanoid characters, built around three pre-determined sub-sets of contemporary consumerist America: teenagers (or «tweens», the more specific category for those aged in - between 10 and 12), middle American fans of the rock - rap star Kid Rock and Wall Street traders.

The resulting uncanny sculptural collages highlight the sustained collapse between highbrow and lowbrow artistic registers in a contemporary society increasingly defined by a profusion of consumerist imagery.

By utilising images of post-war Californian domesticity and the gilded imagery of consumerist driven American dream, the gallery becomes a postulated utopia where the white cube gallery formula is dismissed in a three - dimensional analogy.

The work of the artist, since the beginning of his career, has been dominated by themes such as violence, the relationship with media, drugs, mental illnesses, pop culture, consumerist compulsion, sex, pollution.

«Resistance - Subjecter», enclosed in glass windows, show under the neon light that stereotype of femininity imposed by the Western consumerist world, a figure that is actually the most common representation of the woman nowadays; Hirschhorn's women literally corrode this model presenting themselves as an army of modified human beings carrying the evidence of an interior cancer crystallized on their frigid bodies.

During these same years, the reflections on prehistoric art by the French archeologist and historian André Leroi - Gourhan gave contemporary artists an opportunity to rethink manual work and the value of an object's fabrication in a consumerist world.

Deeply influenced by the discourse and practices engaged with environmental issues, Brooks challenges scientific, philosophical, and consumerist dualities that traditionally separate humans and nonhumans.

Living and creating in postmodern and consumerist societies, artists are often forced to find alternative ways for articulating their concepts and presenting their works in public space largely contaminated by corporative and consumeristic practices.

These frames are a simple tool used to challenge the visual language of consumerist culture, discovering how easy it is to imbue value into a previously worthless item and how easily swayed society is by a construction as simple as a frame, a glass case or a label.

Pre-occupied with the notion of reproduction, the techniques employed by Woods allude to historical artisanal processes, the power of iconography and the dominance of consumerist plasticity.

By overlaying utopian consumerist imagery with the tropes of Modernist geometric abstraction, the artist skilfully blends the registers of high and low art while questioning the seductive powers of commercial imagery in today's society.

This unique approach to design, where the models are also the designers, gives the audience a chance to be guided by queer expression within an environment evocative of both the House Ballroom Scene and the hegemonic, consumerist legacy of a luxury vehicle dealership.

Influenced by Dada and Surrealism, Pop artists sought to distance themselves from the high - brow nature of Abstract Expressionism by using instantly recognizable recognized imagery (Hamburgers, Comic Strip Characters, Cigarette Butts, Cars, Baseball Glove), as well as modern printmaking technology like screen printing - all making a humorous dig at the consumerist American society.

What will not work is to surrender our initiative to a kind of consumerist green chic, in which we choose to «live sustainable lives» by buying greener products and doing nothing else.

Which then leads to a very different characterization of the problem in which carbon emissions are really just a by - product of a cheap energy consumerist society, and the problem isn't to reduce emissions, it is to restructure our entire societies (and our conceptions of them) so that we no longer depend on growth in resource consumption as our definition of human progress.

Advertising Age has an interesting article here (via Consumerist) describing how advertising «law» is created, in part, by decisions of the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, a self - regulating body established in 1971 to deal with false or misleading advertising claims.

Via Consumerist, however, I see that one website is trying to address this widespread «too long, didn't read» problem by basically creating a CliffsNotes version for each ToS out there.

For those who missed the story, a few days ago Facebook amended its terms of service to allow Facebook to use any content uploaded by users as the company deemed fit, even after users closed their accounts and left the site, according to Consumerist, which discovered the changes.

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So, is the tide turning and have we seen the high water mark of rampant consumerist policies led by the mantra of widest choice and cheapest price?

The Consumerist blog alerts us here to an unusual requirement that Lincoln University instituted in 2006: Upon matriculating at the school, each student's «body mass index» (weight in pounds divided by height in inches squared) is measured.

Consumerist says Google Maps «only shows foreclosures currently on the market and won't show any foreclosures that have already been sold by banks.»

In an update posted Monday on The Consumerist, one of the residents of this condo named Dave says he and his neighbors have tried to fight back by posting signs alerting residents to the issue and planning to attend the next HOA meeting.

The Consumerist reports that last month in a Northern Virginia condo complex, residents received a letter telling them they had 30 days to provide a DNA sample of their dog via a special kit provided by the HOA.