Sentences with phrase «over consumerism»

I try to speak out about over consumerism, but I feel myself sometimes being sucked into the consumerism of the all natural products.

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It would have been understandable had people just thrown their hands up in disgust and given up on branded consumerism after the mess over the past decade, and we'd be screwed if they had.

To Pope Francis» credit, I believe that he was speaking out against excessive consumerism and the love of money over God; both of which are clearly sins.

We are all given over to materialism, consumerism, greed, and selfish meism.

The surge of disposable capital in post-World War II consumerism gave impetus for the debate over modern society.

That consumerism («black friday») is fast taking over this «celebration.

Gale Maleskey, MS, RD has spent over 20 years working as a professional writer specializing in healthy lifestyles, food and nutrition, alternative medicine and medical consumerism.

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

so over time, i've really given up on fast fashion and embraced the idea of conscious consumerism.

But now that the 60s are over and consumerism has soared into a hedonic hysteria, does the statement still ring true?

And now in «The Day After Tomorrow», there is yet more disaster and destruction on a truly massive scale all over America (and incidentally the rest of the world), only this time the enemy is global warming, the starring boffin is unable to do anything to defeat it, and the blame is placed squarely on the shoulders of Western consumerism and blinkered US governance.

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.

In Europe, real incomes continued to rise over the last 30 years, and people were slower to adopt a more rampant consumerism, so there's still plenty of runway left.

Over the last three decades, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has been internationally acclaimed for her pioneering use of new technologies and her investigations of issues that are now recognized as key to the working of our society: identity in a time of consumerism, privacy in a era of surveillance, interfacing of humans and machines, and the relationship between real and virtual worlds.

Over the course of his career, multidisciplinary artist Derrick Adams has created a dizzying array of works — from vividly hued collages and assemblages to large - scale sculptural installations and performance pieces — that explore the black experience and its intersections with pop culture, consumerism, fashion, and art history.

The series of sculptures are entitled Sediment Salad and they are comprised of tropical fruits, vegetables and consumer products dipped into concrete, decaying over the course of the exhibition and reflecting on modern day consumerism.

It's all completely over the top, filled with satire looking at politics and consumerism.

She is interested in expressing the disillusionment of a generation raised on hyper - consumerism and media over saturation.

Shin is also transforming the closet into a jewel box that she has titled Rapture, a site - specific assemblage of over three hundred necklaces, which speaks to the chain of consumerism, while existing within the intimate, personal space of a wardrobe.

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.

In his exhibition at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects (August 4 — September 1, 2007) he presents «new paintings from the Left Over series in which he playfully merges references to the still life paintings of Jean - Siméon Chardin with the experiences of consumerism» (from the Press Release).

Ladders, grounded in the earth, reach upward, towards a spiritual, unknown realm and in doing so, the search for something more than the world consumerism has created for us is possible and possible just there, up the ladder and over the wall.

Lynn Hershman Leeson artist and filmmaker, who over the last three decades, has been internationally acclaimed for her pioneering use of new technologies and her investigations of issues that are now recognized as key to the working of our society: identity in a time of consumerism, privacy in a era of surveillance, interfacing of humans and machines, and the relationship between real and virtual worlds.

In an expansive new show bringing together over 70 artists — including Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Sarah Charlesworth, and Richard Prince, among others — the Hirshhorn Museum creates a focused and vivid history of the decade when a group of groundbreaking artists in New York redefined how art related to a burgeoning culture of consumerism.

As consumerism took over the systems of mass production implemented for the war effort, artists came to terms with unprecedented levels of commodification and mechanical reproduction.

The exhibition was the last project Hamilton directly participated in and illustrates the array of mediums, genres and themes the artist employed and approached over the course of his career: from photography, drawing and prints, to industrial design, advertising and the digital manipulation of images; from portrait, self - portrait and interiors, to metalinguistic investigations — for instance on the limitations of different forms of representation and the relationship between vision and movement — via a political critique and a reflection on consumerism and mass culture.

The growth of consumerism and instant gratification over the last few decades of the 20th century has also had a huge impact on visual art.

Over the past fifty years, consumerism across the world has fuelled consumption on an unprecedented scale, threatening to deplete the earth's resources and destroy the interdependent ecosystems and ecologies essential to sustain life.

Maybe, as hard times roll, Landy's hint to consumerism had made Tate rethink over the whole tree idea.

Amongst the most creative and amusing commissions are the 1993 upside - down tree by Turner Prize winner Shirazeh Houshiary, Cathy de Monchaux's 20ft high tree, made up of swathed canvas (1994) and Michael Landy's polemical «garbage tree» (1997), disposed in a dustbin to underline the spirit of consumerism that reign over Christmas time.

All the homes within 5 miles range from 1800 sq ft to over 7000 sq ft and most are closer to 2800 - 3500 sq ft.. We bought our home when I was still fully under the influence of commercial consumerism and we thought we needed bigger.

It is based upon individualistic consumerism over everything else (an ever growing profit, i.e. capitalism).

To mark such a milestone we looked back over the successes of the company and predict what the next 25 years will bring for the future of Ethical Consumerism.

And in a searing indictment on capitalist society, Charles said we can no longer afford consumerism and that the «age of convenience» was over.

TH: How do you respond to folks who might say that EVO is just encouraging more consumption, and that «green consumerism» is at best a green band - aid over the planet's real problems?

One of the most disappointing aspects of Christmas (besides the crazed consumerism) is the piles of plastic packaging left over after the morning commotion.

Having posted on why corporate fat cats love ethical consumerism, and then followed up with a discussion of why voting and shopping are not the same thing, Kristen Marzocca over at Sustainable Speak posted a response in defense of ethical consumerism.

Howard Bashman over at How Appealing picked up on an 8th Circuit case decided yesterday, ruling in favor of seven people who had been arrested in Minneapolis for protesting «consumerism» by dressing up like zombies and plodding around during the 2006 Aquatennial.

It was just over a year ago, that our fearless leader, Brandon Miniman kicked off what has become a grand tradition of short, gut - reaction editorials — TL; DR.. Now, with the release of the new Nexus tablet, Mr. Miniman's editorial has been thrown asunder, his hopes and dreams dashed against the unyielding stones of progress and consumerism.

• Consumerism: The Hispanic market made up over 50 percent of real growth in the U.S. consumer economy from 2005 to 2008.