Sentences with phrase «like consumerism»

But hey you want to be a consumer advocate I like consumerism to.

The curator identified that contemporary artists were investigating the Third Reich, as opposed to victims of the Holocaust, as a new strategy that was supposed to help viewers not only reexamine the past, but consider present critical issues like consumerism and oppression.

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

After the holidays, I was just feeling like consumerism and fashion were a never - ending hamster wheel.

Not exact matches

For the last decade, the renminbi was largely moving in a single direction — up — because China was tired of being dubbed a currency manipulator and it would like to foster consumerism.

Like it or not, the middle class became global citizens through consumerism — and they did so at the mall.

Personally, I like to avoid the whole herd mentality of pointless consumerism — I find it as stupid as the herd mentality of religion.

Wallis in contrast, argues that «we have no right to be shocked» when underclass youth behave like violent, selfish materialists, because of the «moral pollution of rampant consumerism» the culture pumps into them.

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.

Statements like «To outperform you must overinform» reek of consumerism, which has no resemblance to Christianity.

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.

«Farming is an attractive path for people who are getting out of school and feeling like there's kind of a toxic consumerism and not feeling too excited about working for the Man, especially seeing as he's been spoiling our politics and a lot of our ecology,» she said.

Plus I hate the stories about customers getting trampled in store runs — don't like to support that kind of consumerism.

Like most Americans, I have a bit of a consumerism problem (I could bore you at this point with my long academic ramblings on the subject... but I'll spare you!).

What used to be a holiday that centred around spending time with family has now become consumerism crazed, with days like Black Friday encouraging excessive gift giving of toys which will be played with once and then not touched again.

It felt like a vicious cycle of consumerism.

A toy hay day is just not necessary and it sends a message of consumerism that that I just don't like.

Your ancestors are the same ones that criticized indigenous norms such as living organically when they were establishing industries for profit that promote consumerism and now wan na act like they are the custodians of being environmentally friendly!

I don't think it will get any better with consumerism and companies like Amazon on an all time high, but I guess people like us can hold on to the true meaning of Christmas and pass on our beliefs to future generations, in the hope that some of it sticks!

Just like you, what saddens me the most is that consumerism has taken precedence over the true meaning of Christmas.

The dating industry, like pornography before it, is feeling the full force of online consumerism and is realising that customers no longer want to pay extra for so - called «premium» content.

It gives the idea of consumerism run wild the short shrift that it deserves (and the cynicism that an intervening quarter - century demands), touching on the original's explanation of the zombies» affinity for the shopping mall and the human heroes» delight at their newfound material wealth before becoming a bracing action film that, like Marcus Nispel's reworking of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the source of which didn't need updating as much as Dawn arguably did), is more firmly entrenched in the James Cameron Aliens tradition than the Seventies institution of disconcerting personal horror film.

«Autofac,» with Juno Temple and Janelle Monae, is a nicely contained postapocalyptic look at consumerism (and, yep, technology) that certainly makes you feel like the omnipresent, authoritarian and worrisome company at the center of it all is Amazon, so give Amazon Video a little credit for getting that one past Jeff Bezos.

In a Hollywood practically driven by crass consumerism and gimmicks, The Muppets never feels like such for an instant.

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.

Yet despite this «shut - in» consumerism that Generation Z likes, they are also eager to become change agents and have an impact in the world.

In a world shaped according to consumer middle class norms, Hasköy youth, who are very much aware of the fact that unless they exhibit this consumerism in their bodies and life practices, they won't earn respect and will be subject to ostracizing, othering words / gazes, seek salvation in trying to be like the middle class.

Public school educators can elevate students and parents out of the bowels of consumerism by treating them more like partners IN education and less like clients and consumers OF education.

Instead of plunging into the electric revolution, I pick and choose between convenience and what looks to me like rampant consumerism, attempting to find a middle ground.

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.

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

If you have a strong desire for material things because that is normal to you, you feel like you deserve them, or you think you can't live without them (even though they are wants, not needs), then breaking that consumerism mentality is a bigger problem than whatever debts it got you into.

With all that frustrated consumerism rushing to the surface, young workers often feel like the new - found money is burning a hole in their pockets.

It's really easy to be frugal when you opt out of mass consumerism — more stuff when you already have an abundance of material goods isn't going to make you any happier (regardless of what advertisers and marketers would like you to believe).

Consumerism Commentary provides listeners with a peek at fascinating topics like entrepreneurship (episode # 171), minimalism (episode # 135), and pursuing a debt - free lifestyle (episode # 131).

Not only is this better for the environment and takes a stance against consumerism, it's a lot easier to get up and move on to the next destination if you have nomadic tendencies like yours truly!

Joe Haygood, Joe Fourhman, Tony Sadowski and Kat Riley are back with another consumerism - fueled episode of You Like the Worst Stuff, as we discuss some holiday deals and True Black Friday Adventures!

The hope for institutions like Disney and Nintendo isn't that they remain revolutionary in perpetuity, but that they don't descend into rank consumerism, using great art to hock empty entertainment.

More recently, they unleashed controversy for sending a bot called Random Darknet Shopper on a three - month shopping spree in the Darknets where it randomly bought objects like ecstasy, fake trousers or a Hungarian passport and had them sent directly to a gallery in Switzerland as an ongoing exploration of the deep web via automatized robot - consumerism.

Like other young artists of a conceptual bent, such as Jeff Koons and Haim Steinbach, Lavier has a decidedly Postmodern approach to the issue of art and consumerism.

Nevelson's frieze - like stacks of discarded objects, painted black, are melancholy reflections of the growing sense of the perils of consumerism.

These compositions, which have become the artist's trademark, are based on the repetition of a single image as subordinated, pixel - like units to create ironic, dystopian portraits of anonymous subjectivity in a world dominated by industrial production and out - of - control consumerism.

As children of the «60s, the Pictures artists were also exposed to the rise of consumerism that both drove emerging mass media like television and was celebrated in it.

His large format artwork is dream - like in setting, but infused with social comment on life in America today, addressing questions on the American family and consumerism.

Consumerism was quickly defining the decade, and the modern brand was driving social culture, led by major multinational companies like Pepsi, Nike, and CNN.

Rebelling against what he saw as the dehumanizing forces of industrialization and consumerism, Merz preferred to work with everyday materials and organic matter, like earth, found objects, and neon tubing.

The installation juxtaposed the history of commerce in pre-colonial Africa with contemporary consumerism and features a colorfully printed garment, gilded shopping cart and editioned prints and wallpaper displayed in a glass vitrine made to look like a shop window.

Together with a group of young artists — including Robert Longo, Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince and Louise Lawler — Sherman was critical about contemporary image culture and the rise of image consumerism that both drove emerging mass media like television and was celebrated in it.

Babaeva's wayward organisms threaten the kitsch «designer» consumerism, breaking away from a mold that, like the imposing arrow aforementioned, can be an oppressive guide.

It explores the causation, occurrences, inner mechanisms, politics and functions of Anxiety in relation to the development of consumerism in cities like Hong Kong, through the practice of the four participating artists.