Sentences with phrase «how consumerism»

We have covered, of course, how consumerism does not make us happier but that living simply can, but we have also discussed something that could be used as an alternative to actually buying things — to get the joy of consumerism without the resulting depression.

Even as 21stcentury consumer culture has evolved into a globalized digitized juggernaut, Prince's cowboys still tell the tale of how consumerism began.

To understand why, you first have to get past the facial hair, the plaid shirts and the skyrocketing rents and consider how consumerism has been reimagined, there, in the shadow of Wall Street.

Not exact matches

In turn, the promoters hope that we may reflect on how «rampant consumerism» has impacted the environment and fuelled excessive levels of debt.

Compulsive consumerism is one example of how the techno - economic paradigm affects individuals.

And how significant is it that this attitude of separation places great emphasis on some issues of outward appearance (alcohol, smoking, tattoos, entertainment) and not others (unthinking consumerism, gluttony)?

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

It is instructive to note how significant an influence consumerism has had as a philosophy, even as a hermeneutical lens through which Christian faith is understood and interpreted.

Which got me thinking about how controlled our society is by consumerism.

To name just a few, Mark writes about how nothing is sacred (p. 107), how feelings have become more important than faith (p. 114), and how society worship idols of self - satisfaction and consumerism (p. 203).

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.

Like the British who turned a blind eye to slavery in the name of consumerism, tens of millions of Americans seem content to tune out the human suffering tied to how we spend our money, as long as they get what they want.

Consumerism asks its own set of questions: How do we compete in the denominational marketplace?

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Not the comfort of your child's legs, not how «consumerism forces you to run out and buy new carseats».

They may be useful in certain situations, but if money or space is tight, or if you're just looking to simplify and reduce consumerism and waste, here's how to get along just fine without these so - called «essentials.

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 consumeriHow 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 consumerihow 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.

I went on about saving the planet, the World Health Organization, consumerism, meditation, peace, and how it all ties into food.

Plus, as you pare down, it will shift your purchases moving forward and change how you approach consumerism in general.

In fact, I am now observing on a more regular basis how essential a daily mindfulness practice is to both resisting the constant consumerism and self - righteousness and inviting our wholehearted energies of self - compassion and human kindness.

but not enough is being said on youtube about workers in the fashion industry, human rights and how we are given the opportunity, every day, to vote for, or against them with our money... Ethical fashion and consumerism in general is so important and I feel it needs a lot more awareness than it currently has.

It is really frustrating to see how high consumerism is for some bloggers, and how clothing is never re-worn.

More of the same please — I especially love how thoughtful your posts on consumerism are.

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.

This is how, at the level of the most basic yearning for human companionship, consumerism can potentially fuse with a neoliberalist ethos, eliciting a flexible consumer who can desire whatever's required and accept that yearning as authentic.

They put some thought in the main idea of consumerism and how they could represent it in music.

It looks at not only climate change, but also war and how the Church, represented by Abundant Life, is more akin to consumerism than something to nourish the spirit or comfort the downtrodden.

How does this film portray society's consumerism?

The film is essentially a dark satire of contemporary consumerism, but to describe it as such is to hide just how incredibly bizarre it is.

How large a part would you say that consumerism — and attitudes it may produce in readers, per Catton's essay — plays in the quickness you find in some to label work «elitist?»

In trying to discern better, myself, what we have and could have and should have today in terms of criticism — and to be blunt about it, how to make something richer and less tied to consumerism palatable to the average reader — I welcome Douglas» interest, as I think my colleague in some of these debates, Bethanne Patrick, will, too.

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

By the title, I assumed you would be writing about how you embrace the consumerism of others during the holiday season.

Unfortunately, that form of convenient consumerism is how more and more people are bringing pets into their homes.

How does American consumerism limit us from seeing the world?

The exhibition will explore how fashion photography can engage in issues such as gender, wealth, consumerism, the environment, protest and identity building.

«Honestly, I think it's boring to say this moment was just the next generation of Pop art,» Jetzer said, noting these artists were fueled by radical political, economic and technological shifts, which prompted them to reassess how art itself functioned in the growing culture of consumerism.

Curated by Tiffany Zabludowicz, STRAY explores how the human body is affected in the digital age and how flesh transitions into something that can be manipulated whether that is by consumerism, observation or self - improvement.

Votre portait (1974), which includes a face of the French Romanian poet, Eugène Ionesco, who symbolized European egotism for Kudo, suggests the impotence of anthropocentric culture in the face of technology, pollution, and consumerism, while also questioning how artists can respond to this helplessness.

Within the Azimuth group emerged a reflection on the relationships that tie information, consumerism and communication, which I find particularly relevant in understanding how many younger contemporary artists are dealing with the overload of information in the digital age.

Her work asks viewers to closely consider how global topics like consumerism and power play a role in their daily lives.

In a world mediated by the rationale of the market and consumerism, Claire Fontaine co-opts art practices as a method for collective activity, a way of reflecting on how such notions predicate the construction of our lives as individuals and as citizens.

The event will include a series of intensive workshops, discussions and performances that will explore how youth culture glamorizes consumerism in an attempt to examine capitalism through the lenses of art, history and culture.

In his new book, best - selling author Brian Solis explores the importance of experiential design and how to navigate the evolving landscape of new consumerism.

Despite their differences, both focused on female stars (Jane Avril for Toulouse - Lautrec, Marilyn Monroe for Warhol), and this talk at MoMA looks at how the two artists used posters and tabloids to link art and consumerism.

The piece talks about consumerism and how all of these things are related since everything is interconnected.»

The group's ideas echoed those of their American contemporaries Jasper Johns (b. 1930) and Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008), the early pioneers of Pop art, who were also experimenting with how to engage with the new consumerism.

The exhibition looks at how contemporary visual culture has been progressively mutating towards models where seemingly opposite dimensions come together to create hybrid forms: material and virtual, textual and objectual, organic and artificial, consumerism and spirituality have been merging and blurring previously defined boundaries.

Referring to Henri Chopin's essay Why I Am The Author of Sound Poetry and Free Poetry (1967) where the «all - powerful Word, the Word that reigns over all... (we) listen to it everywhere describe us and describe events, tells us how to vote, and whom we should obey»; Drew acknowledges society's increasingly passive digestion of the subliminal voice of consumerism and offers a noisy palate cleanser, an escape route, a portal to an alternative world.

The Berlin - based artist looks at stereotypes, pop culture and consumerism to explore the concept of the «East» and the «Orient, asking «how do identities and bodies transform from one place to the other?»