Sentences with phrase «consumer culture we live in»

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«We live in a consumer culture where everyone is looking out for number one.

I suspect the gubmint Beast LOL refers to would be the military - industrial / consumer driven, drug addled / seexcrazed, videoviolence - death culture we live in.

Chicago philosopher - comic Aaron Freeman made the same point in a recent National Public Radio commentary: «Gratitude ameliorates the worst aspect of American life, which is that the consumer culture makes us constantly aware of what we do not have, without counterbalancing rituals of gratitude for the mind - boggling bounty that is the U.S.A.... As you are grateful, to that precise extent you are happy.»

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.

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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.

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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.

While Andy Warhol's best - known work examines modern urban life and consumer culture, his interest in nature was life - long.

Nonetheless, the authors write that «although documenting efficacy of probiotics is still emerging, a growing number of consumers and health - care professionals are interested in trying probiotics,» and that people might «also be interested in increasing the levels of live active cultures in their diet.

A film comedy directed with the grace of a ballet, the painstaking detail of an action painting and the affection of a love song, Playtime is one of the most sublime celebrations of individualism in the alienated landscape of modern urban life and consumer culture.

Japanese consumers enjoy living their fantasies in virtual reality, a trait that stems from their anime and gaming culture.

Taken together, the works suggest both a maker and viewer in states of transitory suspension, caught, perhaps, between a life lived directly, without mediation, and reality experienced one step removed, as an observer, or as a consumer of culture.

Inspired by lived experience, topics in her artwork include environmental illness, climate change, unemployment, the alienation of consumer culture, nuclear nightmares, body hate, cultural identity, visions for the future and global justice.

Online and offline surveillance accompanied by the consumer capitalist culture within today's society are the main issues surrounding his work, in association with current and future utopian environments, the continued automation of our daily lives in relation to the internet of things and the various cultures associated with online communities.

Working with sculpture, video and installation, Debora Delmar Corp. explores the way in which our global consumer culture structures our very lives and routines.

Seen together, their works present fragmented images of American life from the 1970s to the 1990s, pointing towards the spectacle of consumer culture in general, at the same time as revealing their own personal engagement with American culture in particular.

This month, more than forty years after JAMES ROSENQUIST began capturing on canvas the larger - than - life, color - saturated imagery of consumer culture, a major traveling retrospective of his work comes to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Denny takes on popular entertainment and consumer cultures, creating aquarium - like sculptures, which quote in an ironic - melancholic way the former status object of the television set as an item of furniture and living room altar.

Victoria Sin explores consumer culture's proliferation of images and representations of gender and nature within advance capitalism by creating a forest of larger - than - life plastic banana balloons, which she will inflate in the entrance of the gallery.

What I think is important about his art is that it reveals the multifaceted nature of the Black American experience, especially in consumer culture and in the practices of everyday life.

Platter's works embody a philosophical way of living and thinking, as a meditation on detritus and consumer cultures — all channeled into a constellation that examines excess in modernity.

His pieces often explore sexuality, consumer culture and language, but beneath these investigations lies his interest in art's role in life.

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I live in this area, and I understand the unique San Antonio culture and what it takes to drive local legal consumers to take action.

«As culture and technology continue to intersect in every aspect of our world, we want to deliver new products and experiences that ultimately improve and enhance life,» said Richard Yu, CEO, Huawei Consumer Business Group.

For better or for worse, we live in a consumer - centered culture with easy access to credit.