Sentences with phrase «culture by capitalism»

Critic's Pick: Few artists are as right on as Mierle Laderman Ukeles, who in her five - decade - plus career has created a generous and muscular body of work of performances, interventions, and other projects that have dealt swift, sharp blows to the systems and frameworks imposed on art and culture by capitalism.

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Self - control must also mean refusing to succumb to a culture that tells us our worth can be measured by our economic output, a culture I can not help wanting to call «capitalism.»

They are paralyzed by the profound conflict between capitalism and the moral code which dominates our culture: the morality of altruism... Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they can not co-exist in the same man or in the same sociecapitalism and the moral code which dominates our culture: the morality of altruism... Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they can not co-exist in the same man or in the same socieCapitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they can not co-exist in the same man or in the same society.»

But industrial production and transportation were not the only parts of culture transformed by the spirit of capitalism.

The weakness of a critical socialist tradition in America can not be explained altogether by the success of capitalism or the repression of socialism but is in part due to those features of American culture and American myth that we have been examining.1

The dominance of youth culture in American high schools caused by the weakness of traditional values is not favorable to the market economy of capitalism.

Indeed, it seems to me that the «theory classes» made possible by the very success of capitalism do more to undermine wholesome culture than the temptations of the economic order itself.

Since the 1960s — fuelled by the civil rights movement, reactions to the Vietnam war and second - wave feminism — contemporary art has become an intrinsically politicised, critical medium through which everything, from culture to capitalism and the medium itself could be questioned and deconstructed.

At the 2017 Whitney Biennial, the group Occupy Museums, a collective that exposes how global capitalism co-opts culture for its own commercial ends, mounted an installation that examines the debts accrued by artists in the pursuit of their work.

Opening: «So Much Dirt But Not Enough Soil (Ruin Series)» at Knockdown Center At Knockdown Center, «So Much Dirt But Not Enough Soil» will include art utilizing familiar materials such as Miracle Grow, live active culture 1 acidophilus, liquid THC, a shredded and pulped copy of the introduction to Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman, yellow # 5, ginko biloba, Flavor Dynamics» CHEF - ASSIST ® Harvest Spice Flavoring, 3 - methyl butanoic acid, crushed Adderal and aspartame, among others.

Using his own background that has been defined by several cultures simultaneously, Attia explores the impact of Western cultural and political capitalism on the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as well as how this residual strain of struggle and resistance to colonization impacts the mind of any immigrant as a territory.

For a festival dedicated to online culture, transmediale served to remind us of the offline bodies intrinsically bound up in capitalism — through slavery, labour, migration — and demanded that we activate our bodies by speaking up and out in resistance.

Conversely, faced with Postmodernism's culture of images celebrated by Jean Baudrillard, one hardly knows at times whether to see a critique of capitalism or a trembling before the apocalypse.

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.

In New York, recent relevant exhibitions that arguably renew and extend include those of the Ghanaian - Nigeria - based sculptor, El Anatsui, whose site - specific sculptures have become a favorite subject of many art writers for his ingenious fusion of African traditional arts (weaving and metal work) with an eye and hand for crafting his culture's version of postminimalist aesthetics, replete with a postcolonialist critique intersecting international identity politics and the exploitation of Africa by global capitalism.

They have investigated consumer culture and global capitalism and what is meant by a «sense of place.»