Sentences with phrase «from consumerism»

E-books, Abundance, and Happiness E-books are not an escape from consumerism.

We buy and dispose of so many cheaply made objects, and I want the objects I make to feel very much separate from consumerism, to be meditative or even sacred.

Artsy.net May 5, 2015 K. Sundberg Tom Green took cues from consumerism, politics, and the everyday around him to build Boschean, graphic landscapes of cavorting geometry.

The exhibition spans Warhol's iconic career from his early illustrative works of the 1950s, through Pop Art's 1960s heyday, until his untimely death in 1987 — addressing the artist's exploration of every facet of modern life, from consumerism and commissions to Communist politics.

Since I made the shift from consumerism there are times that I feel like the same old hardware, but with different software.

Examined Life (Unrated) The current mindset of America is the subject of this documentary, directed by Astra Taylor, which takes a number of leading academic intellectuals like Cornel West, Peter Singer and Anthony Appiah away from academia and into the streets of America where they weigh - in on cultural issues ranging from consumerism to individualism to modern morality.

Daring, controversial and ambitious, Payne's latest social satire is a commentary on hot topics ranging from consumerism to racism to overpopulation to climate change, much of what it is trying to say needing to be said.

I love your posts on IG, reading your short little stories are always a nice break from the consumerism culture of IG.

Should Christian faith be communicated in consumer terms in order to address people where they are, but nurture them towards the service of God when they are converted from consumerism?

A lot of the transformation has come from consumerism in our society, but there is also the aspect of family and giving.

The Club of Rome called for «a Copernican revolution of the mind», which abandoned the commitment to endless economic growth and set instead as its goals zero population growth, a leveling - off of industrial production, increased pollution control, and a shift from consumerism to a more service - based economy.

Not exact matches

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.

The decision was based on both his firsthand view of capricious commodities prices and a lesson he had gleaned from his former life: the power of American consumerism.

In our time, those truths have been jostled from public view by various secular principles, from hedonism to consumerism to human rights.

Now I'll brace myself for letters from ardent free marketeers who will instruct me that consumerism is nothing but a bogeyman invented by the enemies of capitalism.

How is «blended» worship different from dabbling in «consumerism»?

Far from being just a marketing of goods and services, consumerism promotes a comprehensive philosophy of life that has profound religious dimensions, specifically

I am not suggesting that we limit our lifestyles to this level, although many of us would be better off spiritually and emotionally if we did, and many others of us may need to do something like this to free ourselves from captivity to the gods of consumerism.

Your country is suffering from a deep depression which is being treated with consumerism «buy more».

which also concerns the individual».41 She illustrates this as follows: «It is not enough to criticize property rights... so long as we, as «powerless» individuals, are not able to clarify how we are entangled in the general structures, that is, how we profit from the structures and how we conform to the introverted norms that we regard as self - evident — for example, the norms of achievement, consumerism, reasons of state — and pass them on to others, even when we reject them privately and verbally.

From the point of view of serious Buddhists, the new religion of consumerism is a spiritual disaster.

That is, it arises precisely from what has been most characteristic and creative about modern civilization: its dynamically accumulating knowledge and technology, its expanding industrial system and its emphasis on egalitarian consumerism.

Adults then try to pull children away from the very consumerism they introduced them to.

Don't tell anyone, but sometimes I wonder if the best thing that could happen to this country is for Christ to be taken out of Christmas — for Advent to be made distinct from all the consumerism of the holidays and for the name of Christ to be invoked in the context of shocking forgiveness, radical hospitality, and logic - defying love.

Regrettably, repeated references to liberation from «the system» of nationalism, consumerism, imperialism, etc. lack the specificity and subtlety that might enable readers to know what biblical faithfulness means in their lives, if they do not happen to be Old Testament scholars publishing books.

As responses to my CNN post about why millennials leave the church have been pouring in, and as accusations of consumerism fly from one end and of hypocrisy from the other, I was reminded of an older post from April 2012 that seems freshly relevant: «Better Conversations Between the Churched and Un-Churched.»

I deal with clients on a daily basis suffering from teh consequences of an entire society driven by consumerism, commodity, laziness and the bottom line.

Real conservatives - The actual people who want medieval Indian values of spirituality come back, and that consumerism has been imported from the West.

How do we move from reacting to actually initiating change, how do we move from constantly expecting things to actually being the one generating change, giving as against receiving because our continent has become generally continent of consumerism.

Although I did not get to write a lot of posts, I was inspired to see so many others committing to Fashion Revolution Day and asking about everything from #whomademyclothes to conscious consumerism.

While Slater emphasizes that from the start, «computer dating was about more dates, not better dates,» the industry's origins also reflect how determined singles can be in trying to find stable relationships and marriageable partners in the face of marketized relations and hegemonic consumerism.

I am not a bullet to be fired from the gun of society; into the body of consumerism and affluence, money holds no value; for the most valuable asset is a free soul.

The moviemakers address social concerns such as consumerism, waste, interference from big business, lack of physical fitness, institutionalized childcare and the addiction to screens and virtual worlds.

Freeing oneself from the creeping consumerism of the early - Eighties a far cry from championing cocksure malaise in an era defined by that arrogant listlessness, The Girl Next Door goes more baldly for straight comedy, its resolution a series of twists that lead to a collegiate ending rather than an ambiguous close - up of the empty bug - eyed glaze of opaque Wayfarers.

«Captures a plaintive sense of the human casualties from unfettered global consumerism.»

La Dolce Vita was released in 1960, a time when Italy was emerging from post-war ruins and entering a golden age of prosperity, liberalism and consumerism.

Experimental in its approach, candid about sex, and vicious in its attacks on American conformity and consumerism («Plastics»), the film, adapted by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham from Charles Webb's book, also became a rallying cry for the period's youth, widening the generation gap and emerging as one of the biggest box office smashes of its decade.

Indeed, the book outlines the full gamut of historical periods associated with different kinds of biopic subjects: the classical, celebratory form (melodrama); warts - and - all (melodrama / realism); transition from producer's genre to auteur's genre; critical investigation and atomisation of the subject; parody; culture based on consumerism and celebrity; minority appropriation (queer, feminist, African American, Third World, etc.); and neoclassical biopic, which integrates all of the above.

But there's a complete avoidance of advertising's questionable strategies and practices, and a disconnect from the role advertising plays in energizing excessive consumerism that has promoted extraordinary and damaging debt.

Yes, a plurality of the original scholarship from NEPC is about eliminating consumerism in public schools...

In conclusion, I believe D.C. scholarship families did reach each rung of the Stewart - Wolf transition from clientism to consumerism to citizenship.

If the 1960s cartoon plumbed comedy from putting the familiar in an unfamiliar context, the comic thrusts contemporary constructs like politics, consumerism, the military, and TV news into a Stone Age setting to encourage a frank reevaluation of perspective.

It tells us how to shift the balance from self - interested «consumerism» to a friendlier and more collaborative society.

This type of consumerism is not possible under the legacy publishing model where books can take over a year to go from an author's finished manuscript to a bookstore.

Profiled in Forbes and Money Magazine, Consumerism Commentary comes from financial guru Luke Landes.

As a nation with an increasing appetite for consumerism, credit usage and internet proliferation, none of the people had taken any steps to protect their identity from theft.

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

Doing so can be difficult when the media, working in concert with an instant gratification culture of consumerism, often distracts people from tried and true principles.

NPMP aims to raise public awareness and educate consumers about the consequences of buying puppies from pet stores, websites and classified ads, and the direct link between consumerism, human greed, and animal suffering.

How does American consumerism limit us from seeing the world?