Sentences with phrase «on consumerism»

With an engaging plot that's as much a commentary on consumerism as it is a tale of morality, Forgotton Anne's inspired narrative is backed up by some solid and engaging gameplay.

There would be less focus on consumerism and a greater focus on sustainability and community values.

Encouraging reflection on consumerism, globalization, and mass media, her pieces function as archeological remnants of contemporary culture.

This is prevalent in the United States since the country is built on consumerism and a «keeping up with the Jones» mentality.

Dead Rising's already riffed on Dawn of the Dead's take on consumerism and the United States» outrageous pharmaceutical companies, but Dead Rising 4 hides a slightly more scathing observation inside of its pandemonium; right - wing apocalypse advertising.

The Kardashian's are an USA success story based on our consumerism mentality and the idea of Fear of Missing Out.

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.

I see this mentality on display whether baptist, nondenominational or at a local catholic church because they are bent on consumerism (e.g. capitalism) which doesn't serve the interest of christianity.

When Wallis does address personal sin, as in his compelling chapter on consumerism titled «I Shop, Therefore I Am,» he seems to find it only in the middle and upper classes.

I don't see how it can be, but maybe I'm just drunk on consumerism and am in denial.

Put a kibosh on the consumerism that we live in constantly, just for now so that you have some space to declutter your mind before beginning again.

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

Forty - two years after coming to get Barbara, Romero's zombies have transformed into smart riffing on consumerism, become more intelligent, started a society all their own, and been the subject a documentary.

Swarming with zombies on both sides of the camera, the film is unrelentingly relentless, leaving no room for original director George Romero's wry satire on consumerism or his slow - paced, creeping undead.

That supposed conversation serves as the basis for Irish artist Gerard Byrne's recent «Why It's Time for Imperial, Again» video - installation piece that the New York Times called «a meditation on consumerism, urban decay, the energy crisis, and the automobile industry.»

Two recent posts, one on Christian Personal Finance, the other on Consumerism Commentary, discuss ethical, or as it is known in the trade, socially responsible investing.

There's nothing wrong with splurging on a coffee, but this offer says a lot about American attitudes on consumerism, money, and debt.

In retrospect, one shouldn't be surprised when one looks at the root of the word «industry» and the whole purpose is to provide quality goods to consumers and also monopolize on consumerism itself; one is more important than the other, depending on whom you ask.

The exhibition also touched on both consumerism (Clive Barker's Blue Coke) and anti-consumerism (Mario Schifano's Propaganda): contrasting messages that are inherent in Colin Self's Hot Dog 5 from 1964, which uses the staple of the hot dog in U.S. fast - food culture as a metaphor to comment on Amercia's expanding nuclear arsenal.

In the digital age and generation of the selfie, a spiraling and often disorienting importance placed on consumerism and commodities permeates even the most remote of regions.

Artist Statement Kharis Kennedy's identity as a painter centers on consumerism, commodification and celebrity worship interlaced with influences of her Virgin Island surroundings.

They're not fresh at all, no longer readable as comments on consumerism, but as reflections on other things: obscurity, intimacy, and legacy making.

George A Romero's zombie apocalypse flick Dawn of the Dead supplied the original Dead Rising with its arch commentary on consumerism.

Built on consumerism and the rapid augmentation of profits, progress in our post-industrial age has led to serious environmental imbalances in the most comprehensive sense of the term: an over-consumption of non-renewable raw materials, noise, visual and air pollution, and the extinction of animal and vegetable species.

Click through to watch video on their take on consumerism, some design strategies to fix us, and what to do with our collective free time.

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.

On another occasion when paired with Sulak Sivaraksa, I suggested that for Buddhists the most natural focus is on consumerism, since that is a personal distortion based on obvious illusions as to what makes for happiness.

Getting clothing and gear for your kids at KC saves you money (most people find much more than $ 5 or $ 10 worth of items at each swap) while simultaneously cutting down on consumerism.

This focus on consumerism and throw - away products clutters your home, drains away money and burdens the earth.

A brilliant sequence in which Kenneth and gun - shop owner Andy (Bruce Bohne), marooned across a parking lot on the roof of his store, engage in a game of celebrity skeet shooting (the zombie «Burt Reynolds» gets one in the brainpan, which, by itself, earns the picture a recommendation) touches on our relationship to the cult of celebrity in the same breezy way as its commentary on consumerism.

Whereas Romero used this complex as a comment on consumerism, the new film uses it as a set and nothing more.

And yes, people are doubling down on consumerism, but isn't that what they do — I mean, what does a shopaholic do when they get their latest credit card bill (Envelope 1 of 3)... yes, they go shopping to make themselves feel better, that's the real doubling down.

Through light - hearted humour and sarcasm Lavier has reworked the notion of the canvas and moreover of the art work in general via juxtapositions and hybridizations, creations that are generated by his thoughts on consumerism and authorship, which are rooted in his first handed experience of the tumultuous riots in Paris in 1968.

Ostensibly abstract, Bradford's paintings are less commentaries on consumerism than they are examinations of specific conditions that shape communities.

Yet, as I approach the painting the barrage of material becomes apparent and I immediate become fearful that she is commenting on consumerism and pull away from the trite use of found plastics and glitter.

Because of the multiplicity of objects in her work, it is sometimes interpreted as a wry comment on consumerism.

He notes that these works should not be seen as a comment on consumerism.

Commenting on consumerism, Sandra Doore shapes synthetic leather into fragmented objects of beauty and creates plastic «texted» tapestries, both functioning as sites of investigation and critique.

Turk's piece, Transubstantiation provides viewers with a comical expression of the Skip Gallery ethos, a humorous commentary on consumerism that will be launched in Hoxton Square on Thursday 16th November.

Other artists during this period addressed social and political issues through their work, such as Jean - Michel Basquiat commenting on consumerism and religion through comic imagery in A Panel of Experts (1982).

Curved, bent, and unconventionally aestheticized, these aluminum sculptures, some of which are accentuated by oozing wax, move beyond sculpture to deliver commentary on consumerism, environmental debate (one of the photographs on view documents Climate March amidst Times Square, while others trace the artist's backyard in his Brighton Beach residence), and excess daily life generates.

Fashioned from aluminum and copper wire, Weave 2 provides a reflection on consumerism and Dubai's trade history.

The pop artists, as they were later christened, produced figurative and representational images, and used found objects, to create art that was a visual commentary on consumerism.

But demand for renewable energy has ushered in an era of hands - on consumerism, with green - minded corporations now directly supporting its growth.

Reducing waste and cutting back on your consumerism will do more for the earth — in terms of saving energy and resources — than stocking up on unnecessary fashions (even if they were made without pesticides).