Sentences with phrase «of consumerist»

XXX Domains Selling Like Hotcakes to Companies That Don't Even Want to Use Them Main Farewell and Thanks to Ben Popken, Managing Editor of The Consumerist»

A huge part of the success of The Consumerist was due to its managing editor, Ben Popken.

«Farewell and Thanks to Ben Popken, Managing Editor of The Consumerist Main After Supreme Court Denies Cert, Police Association Must Contend With Unconstitutional Highway Crosses»

Popken's byline seemed to regularly be at the top of many of the Consumerist articles that I found particularly interesting (like this, this, this or this, just to pick a few).

What will not work is to surrender our initiative to a kind of consumerist green chic, in which we choose to «live sustainable lives» by buying greener products and doing nothing else.

Turin was home to several poveristi, and like countless disaffected locals, they viewed the influx of American capital as a kind of colonization, bringing with it exploitative labor policies and a toxic ethos of consumerist capitalism.

While the messages of several pieces, like an overprocessed tropical drink, can be overly explicit (for example, do we really need to see monolithic snowmen dotted with mango seeds to understand the effect of consumerist tourism?)

One suspects a critique of consumerist Western culture, of the growing abyss between dearth and excess.

Finally, well - thought art practice of Nick Gentry is not only dealing with the exploration of how humankind is integrating with technology and critique of consumerist society, moreover, it questions the very evolution and the destiny of humans in accordance with the increasing exploitation of the natural resources in favor of technology.

These time consuming and labor demanding installations represent artist's visual commentary of consumerist culture and mass production, and show his careful artistic observation of the sunlight in nature.

Leading off with early paintings, the Serpentine will feature Metzger's notable metaphors for our ineluctable journey on the Oblivion Express — his notorious «auto - destructive» pieces (disintegrating sculptures, acid - splashed canvases) begun in the late»50s — in addition to his presciently eco-minded critiques of consumerist excess via accumulations of used materials.

Pre-occupied with the notion of reproduction, the techniques employed by Woods allude to historical artisanal processes, the power of iconography and the dominance of consumerist plasticity.

Kruger's stylistic practice has remained consistent throughout her career, in a attempt to challenge to language of and structures of the consumerist culture that surrounds us.

(Ed Ruscha, his peer and friend, with his own text - based works, defined a generation of cross-breed painting that looked like an ironic subversion of consumerist America.)

Brannon's signature methodology of years past, based in antithetical pairings of consumerist and pop - cultural idioms, does not falter despite the labyrinth of material.

These frames are a simple tool used to challenge the visual language of consumerist culture, discovering how easy it is to imbue value into a previously worthless item and how easily swayed society is by a construction as simple as a frame, a glass case or a label.

She later spent several years at Condé Nast, and began examining their magazines to challenge and critique the materialistic objectification of women and the emptiness of the consumerist idyll that the publications extolled.

Mellor states that «The paintings of this fashioned minority group of camp icons are vulnerable to my own diarist situations... overloaded collusions of identity, bombardment of consumerist products and imagery, psychological trauma, political and financial impotency and so on as a catalogue of felt experiences of the isolation, frustration and anxiety of the urban condition.»

The sculptures of César Baldaccini, better known simply as César, often combine allusions to the classical past with playful nods to the ephemeral values of the consumerist present.

By utilising images of post-war Californian domesticity and the gilded imagery of consumerist driven American dream, the gallery becomes a postulated utopia where the white cube gallery formula is dismissed in a three - dimensional analogy.

This overload of information, flowing from the sculpture, represents the artist's critique of our consumerist «paper society».

From found magazine images of distorted human body to investigation of consumerist desires, notions the late artist handled in her humorous and vivid practice still seem to endure.

The resulting uncanny sculptural collages highlight the sustained collapse between highbrow and lowbrow artistic registers in a contemporary society increasingly defined by a profusion of consumerist imagery.

Hyperrealistic paintings which result from a disarming pictorial precision and lead to a melancholy reflection about these new modern urban sceneries, the ones that take shape at street corners, in the suburbs, in the waste of this consumerist era.

Sarah Sze, the American sculptor, who creates wonderful, unsettling mind maps of consumerist detritus that spill across the gallery floor, fell foul of the Chinese censors in Guangzhou.

But Steinbach is interested in portraying not just the whimsy of common objects, but the sinister quality of a consumerist culture.

The artist creates complex assemblages that appropriate familiar branded goods and imagery, reconfiguring them in an attempt to deconstruct the visual language of the consumerist aesthetic.

But the space feels almost utopian: a beautifully staged ruin made from the rubble of a consumerist society.»

The golf course as a leisurely symbol of consumerist society serves as a counterpoint to issues relating to migration, global warming and globalisation that eventually come to the fore.

PT: Large piles of toys gathering dust don't speak well of our consumerist culture, and my inner hoarder feels slightly ashamed looking at them, but then they also reflect Baudelaire's statement that «Is not the whole of life to be found [in a great toyshop] in miniature - and far more highly colored, sparkling and polished than real life?»

But all this doesn't really deny the fact die hard Nintendo Fanboys have an odd form of consumerist worship

The video game publisher Electronic Arts was named, for the second year in a row, «the worst company in America» by readers of The Consumerist.

A reader of The Consumerist sent them a little story about his dealings with Sam's Club.

The impact of the consumerist lifestyle adds up.

Yet this is no normal road trip: genius auteur Jean - Luc Godard's tenth feature in six years is a stylish mash - up of consumerist satire, politics, and comic - book aesthetics, as well as a violent, zigzag tale of, as Godard called them, «the last romantic couple.»

by Walter Chaw George Romero's Dawn of the Dead is a groundbreaking satire of our consumerist state, says the party line, the first film to be shot in that new phenomenon of a shopping mall and full of cogent commentary on how capitalism has become at once a Skinner box and religion instead of merely an organizing principle.

Set during the malaise - filled months following high - school graduation, Ghost World follows the proud misfit Enid (Thora Birch), who confronts an uncertain future amid the cultural wasteland of consumerist America.

We work for our livelihood, and spend a great deal of time in doing so, but love seems to be indispensible even in the midst of our consumerist society.

How do we get out of this consumerist trap we've been in?»

I could do with less of the consumerist Valentine's Day and would be happy with more of the sentimental side of the holiday.

Why not steer clear of the consumerist bandwagon and opt for gifts that are upcycled, homemade or DIY.

This «normal» me is a conglomerate of consumerist fantasies mingled with the kind of «real» experience that so impresses many of the book's contributors, and it is beyond my capacities to separate one from the other.

In particular, he highlights the work of Charles Taylor and Nicholas Boyle, which while critiquing various aspects of postmodernity — the dehumanising nature of the growing secularism and the rise of the consumerist ideology — positively suggests the potential of Christian humanism to contribute to a renewal.

Characteristic of consumerist post-modernism is a scepticism about the self - interest of what is offered or made available.

She proposes a kenotic spirituality as an antidote to «the overindulgence of consumerist society.»

Jeremiah 29:11, the rallying cry of prosperity preachers everywhere, often holds much of the consumerist and impatient attitude we take into our relationship with God.

For Owen, a liberal democracy needs such figures to avoid the soft tyranny of a consumerist and bureaucratic state inured to higher justice.

«One of the biggest roots of consumerists is millennials,» Chang notes.

200 bucks to get a piece of plastic coloured so you look slightly different than the rest of the consumerists.

Not exact matches

The «answer» was to financialize the U.S. economy with vast increases in credit, debt and leverage, enabling a hyper - consumerist economy built on a pyramid of debt and leverage.