You're a company that is skewering brand marketing and consumerist economy while also benefiting from consumerist economy.
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For example, if someone is themselves an anti-consumerist, you can sell them a T-shirt that says they're anti-consumerist, or they'll have their own motive.
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Why is this specific act of consumerist celebration so pleasant?
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Abandon all calorie counts, ye who enter this consumerist hellscape.
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Or maybe they suggest serialization and a confining, consumerist femininity.
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According to Consumerist, Wilkinson said he got 5,000 frequent flyer points.
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You can find all the information directly from Delta here. (Consumerist)
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And not to ruin the planet with a consumerist, throwaway lifestyle.
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According to The Consumerist, it appears that Amaru/AWA Merchandising Inc.
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Ads, disguised as anti-consumerist rants and raves, are advertising 101.
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Additionally, his work explores what love means in our current consumerist culture.
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Ever wonder what Black Friday's consumerist rush looks like in real time?
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Today's consumerist society knows what it wants and when it wants it.
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The first—which is what you see above—is the consumerist side.
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" Ms. Nyandoro reflected, exasperated: "It's understandable in our consumerist society, but heartbreaking.
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Chili's just doesn't have the same magic without its beautiful capitalist consumerist family.
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And now there's been this tremendous multiplication of hooks in our consumerist sea.
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Reports about the consumerist boom brought on by the novel coronavirus are everywhere.
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She ponders what they say about how capitalism feeds — and creates — consumerist desire.
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If you are at loss for words, Consumerist has a sample complaint letter.
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The American-forged modernity of the Roaring Twenties was unapologetically consumerist, not communist.
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Voters are more consumerist, much more willing to switch depending on the offer.
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I was non-consumerist, growing up with grunge—like, why would I buy anything?
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So what does that say about the [consumerist] society we have built for ourselves?
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It denounces both dogmatic Marxism and consumerist materialism as mindsets empty of spiritual content.
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The Provo movement expanded isometime later into a leftist, anti-consumerist, anti-capitalist one.
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Are there ways of raising children that tap communal energies rather than consumerist ones?
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Inevitably, the highly recognizable and replicable symbol has inspired some more consumerist urges, too.
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In this spirit, "The Game Theorist's Guide to Parenting" is also a consumerist manual.
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Around a dozen Little Caesars are currently testing this new method in Arizona, Consumerist reports.
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Besides, we'd all do better to be less consumerist when it comes to getting off.
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But in times of fear and uncertainty the consumer of art can become a consumerist.
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Nikita Khrushchev always believed that the consumerist West would end up buried in socialist products.
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Both women were raised with a "slightly anti-consumerist" mandate to buy fewer, better things.
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"We just don't want to be involved in this crazy, consumerist society," he told me.
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Hiroki's art focuses on trash, the little talked about symbol of the capitalist, consumerist lifestyle.
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And yet, despite Burning Man's anti-consumerist ethos, many billionaires (particularly from Silicon Valley) attend.
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The holiday consumerist orgy seems like it starts earlier and earlier in my interfaith household.
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Then they act out a parody of jaded consumerist hedonism, browsing among the brand names.
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Opinion Columnist Amazon is a genie of consumerist wishes, and it keeps growing more irresistible.
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Into this unstoppable consumerist success story steps the British archaeologist and medieval historian Alexander Langlands.
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In the hectic consumerist China of the late 20th century he cut a deliberately quaint figure.
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Germany today has not only devout ascetics but everything from consumerist hipsters to Om-chanting yogis.
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The program, which launched in June, ranked frequent diners as either Mild, Medium, or Hot. Consumerist.
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Although he has an anti-consumerist mindset, Whiter says his frugality was born from childhood experience.
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The website Consumerist reported last week that Strategic Marks acquired the names in post-judgment discussions.
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The shakes are already available at some McDonald's locations, though not all are participating, notes Consumerist.
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Really I'm just another consumerist American (and one who is often a little lazy about recycling).
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No amount of expensive rugs could get him to stand behind this lame, consumerist garble, right?
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Since the early 2010s Iran has witnessed the growth of a consumerist culture and rising inequality.
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It's brimming with buzzy but legitimate journalism — plus fiery op-eds and must-see firsthand videos. Consumerist.
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Consumerist reports that those who have the service available to them aren't exactly offering up glowing reviews.
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I Feel Pretty is like a feature-length Dove ad, only somehow even more condescending and consumerist.
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There's a bit of consumerist whiplash that goes on when one travels from New Jersey to Cuba.
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And yet... It was the stuff of consumerist dreams, until the FBI discovered the thing was rigged.
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My worry is that citizenship — real citizenship — is virtually impossible in a sprawling consumerist society like ours.
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Some images evince a biting sarcasm or ironic wit, while others poke fun at our consumerist society.
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And there's Glass Gardens (1982), a graphite-on-paper vision of a woman wandering a post-consumerist dystopia.
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At least one, the 33-year-old Qatari-American Sophia Al-Maria, has taken an anti-consumerist position.
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Unspecified "major grocery stores" will be carrying individual bottles of the beverage for under $3, according to Consumerist.
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In Telfar's universe, clothes are a tool to comment on what he views as today's conformist, consumerist society.
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Why were his treacly ballads and mild toe-tappers picked out as the ultimate symbols of consumerist vapidity?
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Consumerist reports that one Pizza Hut location in the city allegedly restricted the evacuation plans of its workers.
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Another couple lose their memories when they go deep underground, in a hyper-consumerist world, as Buddhist terrorists.
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It might be magical being a wizard, but their world is just as consumerist as the real one.
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According to Consumerist, customers using the drive-thru at the Golden Arches wait, on average, about 3.47 minutes.
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In the middle of nowhere, with no shopping malls in sight, people living anti-consumerist lifestyles were everywhere.
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Red Velvet's concert in Tokyo, attended mostly by teenage girls, was a nonstop cavalcade of overtly consumerist imagery.
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"In today's consumerist society, there are so many freebies," Ms. Johnson said, especially in New York. Samples. Flyers.
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"Deal with your emotions," Meg Marco, executive editor of Consumerist, which is a part of Consumer Reports, said.
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Enter regulation, the best-of-a-set-of-mediocre-alternatives to our consumerist death pact with big business.
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The consumerist temple KaDeWe is nearby, and lately some stylish developments like Bikini-Haus have been moving in.
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China was a decadent consumerist society that had lost its values and its commitment to preserving equality, he thought.
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According to Consumerist, all you have to do is place an order for carryout with the coupon code 9174.
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Zero waste helps us reexamine our relationship with stuff in a way that can seem progressive and anti-consumerist.
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This emotional tug-of-war is combined with a consumerist culture that emphasizes immediate pleasures through lightning-fast means.
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After all, the only thing more American than consumerist excess is stars-and-stripes propaganda at a sporting event.
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The vast majority of holiday porn focuses on the extremely consumerist and visually distinct holidays of Christmas and Halloween.
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Observed from a distance, the modern Super Bowl commercial is a bizarre example of a consumerist culture run amok.
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Haring's art was both consumerist and socially conscious — it raised awareness (about AIDS, drug use) as it brought joy.
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At such moments, you may even feel that it's your own cluttered, consumerist mind that's being anatomized up there.
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His designs are a mash-up of the creative and the consumerist, taking cues from manga and corporate advertising.
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We suffer from a collective consumerist mania that demands we remain optimistic, shiny, happy and having fun, fun, fun.
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She also weaves in her own role as a consumer of clothes, faced with making choices in our consumerist society.
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It's meant to be vaguely anti-consumerist, which is kind of rich for a movie based on literal toy dolls.
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In America, we live in a consumerist society, which powers our economy and consumes the paycheck of the average American.
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Valentine's Day is just a bunch of corporate consumerist bullsh—how many peanut butter cups in Walmart's Reese's Extravaganza Bouquet?
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Consumerist also adds that just because pizzas are getting preferential treatment doesn't mean that they'll arrive before a certain time.
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If it hadn't been the Spice Girls, maybe another group would have filled that consumerist pop vacuum, but they didn't.
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The consumerist images we're blasted with tell us that having a baby is all twinkly toys, contented gurgles, and softness.
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The movement's musicians, writers, and activists developed an alternative vision of girlhood—non-violent, anti-consumerist, and celebratory of girls.
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We love the memes, but in this form, "Africa" is a nostalgia-employing critique of a near-future consumerist hell.
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Certainly, we can sympathize with trying to find the "authentic" and non-consumerist side of the holiday season in 208.
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Consumerist calls this approach the Executive Email Carpet Bomb, a well-written message to the right group of corporate executives.
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Gawker was good at holding entities accountable, and that's what Consumerist does best with its news items on businesses and corporations.
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So if you're gonna take baby on a run, might want to double-check your stroller isn't on the list.[Consumerist]
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In appropriating an object like a Snuggie I wanted to talk very specifically about a kind of everyday, consumerist, sedentary, complacency.
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Unsurprisingly, the consumerist and materialistic aspects of V-Day kind of put it in opposition to the values of Ash Wednesday.
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It's set in a hyper-consumerist future where one man hears a strange request in a presidential speech: kill all others.
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They reinforce neoliberal ideals, privileging the on-the-move individual whose time needs to be well spent— a neatly consumerist metaphor.
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In Telfar's universe, clothes are a tool to comment on today's conformist, consumerist society (looking cool is just a nice perk).
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Amazon is making it much easier for people to participate in the consumerist culture this month (besides Prime Day, of course).
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The Consumerist, then owned by Gawker Media (which did not have a liquidation sale), kept an eye on the bloody toll.
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In fashion, lingering financial fear, anti-consumerist impulses, and environmental concerns have contributed to the rise of a booming resale market.
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Happiness appears to be a state of dead-eyed consumerist ease illuminated by an occasional wan flicker of mirth or dread.
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We're all doing the same thing together, with the same crowd-sourced knowledge, and we're working as one strange consumerist body.
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Driving converted delivery trucks, Roadtreks, vintage RVs, "skoolies" and the odd Prius, a few thousand gather in defiance of consumerist society.
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I feel like the most likely scenario is a consumerist dystopia propped up by a whole range of new and widespread addictions.
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In this episode of Soapboxing, Jacki and Brennan sift through the garbage our consumerist culture creates to uncover the story of trash.
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It's not just that she hates the mainstream, consumerist message Ashley O. stands for — she's genuinely concerned for her sister's mental health.
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It's something his employers, who have done more than most to promote a passive and consumerist sporting culture, may wish to ponder.
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We live in a consumerist society where the ability to buy things both denotes status and operates as a stress release mechanism.
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You will find no suggestion here that capitalism, the ubiquitous ordering economic and social system of our entire civilization, produces consumerist individualism.
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It was the consumerist equivalent of a porn compilation, one I felt I would never get a liquid foundation money shot in.
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For couples who work in the restaurant industry, it's pretty easy to see through the thin consumerist veil that surrounds Valentine's Day.
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A judge in California has ruled that Uber can be sued over sexual assault committed by its drivers, Consumerist reported on Friday.
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A refrigerator — literally a box for preserving, and a prime symbol of consumerist culture — served to house items that characterized the '70s.
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It's a dangerous place to go if you're a consumerist magpie or if you fancy yourself entrepreneurial — quite a fun rabbit hole.
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His artworks deal with the idea of collaboration, which he's always embraced, and which, in 5803, typically have a consumerist-minded goal.
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If that seems like too much money to you, perhaps consider joining in the long tradition of anti-consumerist Valentine's Day curmudgeonry.
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Rather, the program and how it's being used by regular people exemplifies how Amazon has sunk its claws into our consumerist habits.
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In terms of art, Grosvenor's trio of vehicles comments on high-end production, which has become a major form of consumerist distraction.
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All that's clear, really, is that this corporate tie-in snowballed pretty fast, resulting in a brilliant display of American consumerist panic.
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This isn't fellow literary Brat Pack member Bret Easton Ellis's gruesome satire of American consumerist culture; it's more of an ingrained preternaturalism.
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Customers have filed a class action lawsuit against TD Bank, alleging that its Penny Arcade machine had miscounted their change, according to Consumerist.
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I'm talking about the Beverly Hills, glitzy, consumerist parts of LA, whereas Venice Beach, to me, feels like the complete opposite of that.
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Now people can spend one trillion dollars on Christmas presents and invest in the stock market to support the world's wonderful consumerist system.
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This all sounds dire until one looks at the many ways Millennials are turning this disillusionment with the consumerist American Dream into action.
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It is not because I can't afford to be a full on consumerist, it is because of my free choice to not participate.
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Mr. Min of McCann worried that he would run late for meetings that he had already postponed on account of his consumerist adventure.
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Blecher suggests that this is how we ended up with market-friendly multiculturalism and, in universities, an almost consumerist conception of identity politics.
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It imagines what a world ruled exclusively by dicks looks like, from the empty consumerist culture to the castrating fears of patriarchal pressure.
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Far from utopias, the communities mimic their life-size consumerist counterparts with chain restaurants, while the poor are walled off in a slum.
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Americans became, first and foremost, consumers of the products of industrial capitalism, and the United States was transformed into an essentially consumerist society.
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In Baudrillard's mind, the triumph of liberal democracy, and the collapse of the Soviet model had paved the way for sterile consumerist politics.
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The town was becoming more consumerist and globalized, but most teenagers longed to leave behind the quiet life in search of real opportunity.
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And it represents an old economic model, based on fixed asset investment, which Beijing wants to discard in favor of a more consumerist path.
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And it represents an old economic model, based on fixed asset investment, which Beijing wants to discard in favour of a more consumerist path.
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The promised switch from the old grey industrial growth path to something shinier and more consumerist has been quietly deferred until a future date.
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It's long been on Micky D's secret menu, according to Consumerist, but this is the first time the fast food chain's announced it publicly.
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Anti-consumerist in principle and aesthetically pleasing in practice, the concept of minimalism presents a soothing, blank canvas for the rest of life's messiness.
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Papa John's has offered the option in some locations since as early as July 2016, according to a Facebook post featured on the Consumerist.
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Bands with similar anti-consumerist messages performed, with names like Pregoblin and Scud FM, that have sprung up here following Fat White Family's success.
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Young people were encouraged, in fittingly consumerist terms, to "shop around," so that they wouldn't find themselves saddled with a lacklustre steady for life.
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His cause gained urgency with the rise of globalization and the growing resentment of traditional societies against the secular, consumerist values of Western capitalism.
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However, the implied consumerist purposes that each piece might serve are completely varied — even though the structures within which they're contained disable their fulfillment.
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And so in this way, I'm a good example of how the consumerist environment we are born into ends up encroaching on our emotional lives.
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A Consumerist report revealed that when you get someone a Birchbox gift card or subscription, the company will share the recipient's mailing address with you.
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The company thinks Aerotain will be a perfect, audience-engaging advertising platform, which is probably true, but a little too consumerist to get excited about.
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In the Israel of the mid-1990s, a post-socialist society eagerly transitioning to consumerist capitalism, Salem's conspicuously melancholic Niva was a reliable comic prop.
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Art group Luzinterruptus, known for their guerilla activist installations such as LED-enabled syringes, decided to turn last year's "Consumerist Christmas Tree" into a tradition.
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According to Consumerist, the deadline to file in 2016 has moved to Monday, April 18 — a whole three days later than the usual due date.
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Do you like the feeling of doing something about climate without having to actually change your day to day life or reorient your consumerist values?
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The video "Black Friday" focuses on the consumerist architecture of the shopping mall, a universal structure that overtook the Gulf in the 1990s and 2000s.
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First Words It has become an ostentatious ritual of consumerist self-sacrifice; people who have it all now seem to prefer having nothing at all.
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We live in a consumerist culture, and I'd rather spend my money on health food and self-help guides than junk food and gossip rags.
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But that wasn't the feeling I experienced at Polaris Fashion Place, where two levels of stores hummed with consumerist joy as if it were 1989.
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"How to Win Friends & Influence People" provided Americans with hope for a better life, and equipped them with tools for surviving an increasingly consumerist society.
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Related: Tame Impala's New Music Video Is a Surreal Sex Fantasia "Ummm," Here's an Animated Trip into Consumerist Hell Adult Swim Premieres BOOTS' Animated Music Video
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The news of the bans was picked up by a number of media outlets this week, including The Guardian, Consumerist, PCMag, Engadget, the AP and others.
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Wiseman make us feel how much work goes into something that lasts less than a minute, simultaneously dissecting the contradiction in faking spontaneity for consumerist ends.
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Consumerist reported that the garlic used for those fries — sourced from Gilroy, CA, the garlic capital of the world — kept them from being rolled out nationwide.
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"The author, J.D. Roth, discussed how he attained early retirement by abandoning the ridiculous, debt intensive, consumerist lifestyle that most people seem to embrace, " Carl explains.
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If Black Friday riot videos weren't enough to convince you that America is a consumerist hell on Earth, then our president's Black Friday promo surely will.
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According to Consumerist, the FTC has posted a consumer fraud alert warning that if someone calls you and says they're from Equifax, they're most definitely not.
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We both hate how overly commercial and consumerist weddings are and we're trying to stay away from it as much as possible, but it's sooooo hard.
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Their lifestyle choices are informed either by an admirable anti-consumerist streak or by a lazy reluctance to be weighed down by success and owning stuff.
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"violence of a predatory and consumerist economic system" that threatens all of creation—nowhere more critically than in the supernova of life that is the Amazon
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" Bacow concurs: "I think as the real cost of higher education has increased, people have adopted more of a consumerist or instrumental approach to higher education.
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While the characters and their behaviors may seem odd and illogical, the absurdity of their surrounding world exposes the often-ludicrous nature of the consumerist mindset.
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It built itself up over many decades, developing a sense of shared identity that made being a gun owner more than just a mere consumerist hobby.
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In reality, it's not a conspiracy, and it's not some corporate trick to force you into the newest tech, or trap you on the consumerist treadmill.
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Each installation in the series became an evisceration of contemporary America: Each film was an anti-consumerist screed against a society atomized by greed, corporations, and prejudices.
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There are at least two mentions of emerald brooches, and I am entirely unable to determine whether they're a joke about consumerist excess or a desirable accessory.
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He's constantly ready with a bromide about the glories of "hitting bottom" in a fearful, consumerist society — one he views as emasculating, rather than, say, inherently misogynistic.
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And just because they are an unlimited resource, one that cannot be exhausted by consumerist waste, there is all the more reason to apply the conservationist remedy.
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The '60s are the strongest example where the countercultural impulses, which were originally very anti-consumerist, gave birth to a new round of consumption of groovier stuff.
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The shift towards a more consumerist version of growth has laid waste to those markets, such as iron and steel, that were most dependent on that binge.
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L, who now lives in Chicago, has remained at the periphery of fame, an anti-consumerist loner in a business that runs largely on money and schmooze.
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He was moving away from consumerist themes — soft drinks, dollar bills and Hollywood stars — to grittier fare, though the idea to change may not have been his.
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In my opinion, whatever you think of publicity in The Times for women's shoes, these consumerist advertisements really come from a world apart from Nazi art collecting.
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Thus, the French paradox: a newly consumerist society that had stripped France of its "soul" — made even worse, now, by the fact that economic growth has collapsed.
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The thing is, there's a lot of waste in our consumerist society, and we don't want to add to that by giving and receiving unwanted holiday gifts.
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When he arrives, he finds that all of humanity has evolved into boneless consumerist blobs, eating constantly, babbling at screens, and lounging in high-speed, floating chairs.
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"He has got great perspective, but first and foremost we saw him as a consumerist and a consumer marketer and that's what set him apart," Sinclair said.
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If superstores and malls once represented consumerist success, the ones that survive serve as anchors in communities where the corporation in question has driven out all competition.
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P.S. Word to the wise: Consumerist recommends using up your Toys 'R' Us gift cards ASAP, since a Chapter 11 filing often voids a company's existing gift cards.
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A TSA spokesperson told The Consumerist that it would contact any airlines that promoted this "rule," but as far as we know, only United posted anything about it.
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Country music has a rich history of making tunes for the working American, but that tradition is in danger of being completely replaced by a cynical, consumerist wasteland.
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Rising inequality paired with a consumerist culture that encourages us to spend money we don't have instead of spend time with people we love is a depressing combination.
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As the United States has become a consumerist, hyperindividualist republic that increasingly asks less of the average citizen, Mr. Junger writes, a culture of sacrifice has fallen away.
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American Christianity had been replaced with "a malleable, feel-good, Jesus-lite philosophy perfectly suited to a consumerist, individualistic, post-Christian society that worships the self," he said.
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This fever — described by photographer Tony Bridge as "a form of appropriation ... a photo as consumerist pastime" — contributes to overtourism and results in itineraries full of fleeting moments.
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Black Friday and the subsequent post-Thanksgiving shopping events have become synonymous with overconsumption, leading many people to abstain from the consumerist extravaganza to promote sustainability and workers rights.
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Take "Splendour of Truth", a clip named after Pope John Paul II's anti-consumerist encyclical from 1993, in which Ms Karczmarczyk parodies pop to slam people's preoccupation with bling.
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The show, directed by Lonny Price, is also quietly insightful, making piquant connections between Shakespeare's drama of political powerlust and the consumerist mania of our own fast-food culture.
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By visiting this overhyped street junction, you're making an unconscious decision to contribute to the glorification of our hyper-consumerist society and validating the hypocrisy of late stage capitalism!!!!!
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"'Dub the Dew,' a local market promotional campaign that was created by one of our customers—not Mountain Dew—was compromised," a company representative told Consumerist at the time.
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If you were a bored child or middle-aged adult in the '90s looking for a quick consumerist high, there was one show you could count on: Supermarket Sweep.
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A lot of the consumerist and entertainment activities are so geared toward couples that you kind of get a bit of hurt everywhere in the big cities in China.
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Fred Rogers's ethos was unlike any other: scrupulously moderate, tolerant, and anti-consumerist, driven by cutting-edge models of child development and infused with dollops of real Christian love.
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Pop feminism was everywhere in 2018, and Willmore starts from a Ruth Bader Ginsburg action figure to dissect just why so much pop feminism feels so empty and consumerist.
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The bank got rid of the Penny Arcade after an NBC News report in 2016 revealed that it was miscounting customers' money — sometimes by as much as $43, reports Consumerist.
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The key difference with this show, though, is that Fashioned from Nature will be instrumental in convincing people to alter their consumerist habits for the greater good of our planet.
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These foreigners may be familiar with "Disneyland with the Death Penalty", a scathing essay that William Gibson wrote in 19833, depicting the Lion City as a soulless, consumerist, authoritarian wasteland.
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Although The Society of the Spectacle is recognized as an incisive indictment of the consumerist experience, readers may well reject Debord's assertion that capitalism has inherently degraded our social lives.
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If so, the original intention of a decentralized sound money could be sidelined for Silicon Valley's next consumerist app, Wall Street's next derivative database, or Washington's facelift on monetary policy.
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And these days, it often seems to mean understanding their pain just enough to get something out of it — to manipulate political, technological and consumerist outcomes in our own favor.
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Every moment of every video is a candy-colored consumerist confection, a parade of products for your preschooler to crave: board games, Nerf guns, dunk tanks, plushies of Ryan himself.
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The ladder of ascension still stands within the existing capitalist and consumerist structure, and it continues to be as true as it ever was that it isn't accessible to all.
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I spoke to Courtwright about the problems this has created, why the battle against limbic capitalism is seemingly endless, and if he thinks we're destined to live in a consumerist dystopia.
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The production, written by Pulitzer-finalist playwright Will Eno, is an anti-consumerist allegory filled with songs like "Advertising Ruins Everything," which bemoans contemporary evils like spam and targeted Instagram ads.
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As The Consumerist reports, the aircraft manufacturer has filed a patent application for a "Re-Configurable Passenger Bench Seat," which envisions airline seats not as individual chairs, but a single bench.
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While it remains an authoritarian state, the North is full of private markets, flows of outside information (including South Korean pop music and soap operas), profit-seeking entrepreneurs and consumerist elites.
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You might think that as we've become a more consumerist society, spending almost all of of our time buying things off Amazon, that we own more stuff than we used to.
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Related: Björk Takes You Behind the Scenes of 'Black Lake' [Exclusive] How a Self-Taught Director Shoots Music Videos Through an Insider's Lens "Ummm," Here's an Animated Trip into Consumerist Hell
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While he enjoyed reading Faulkner's novels, translating Auden and Eliot's poems and meeting Einstein, he was unable to come to terms with what to his mind was a consumerist, soulless society.
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By contrast, each of his gold-ticket-holding competitors misbehaves in a shrill solo that speaks to how a child can go bad in a consumerist, celebrity-ruled, technology-dominated culture.
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It's reasonable to expect that the end-point is a kind of archipelago of consumerist monocultures, where Phone™ is an iPhone, Store™ is Amazon, and Coffee™ is Starbucks.
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Meanwhile, a group of critically minded German painters gathered under the label Capitalist Realism — Manfred Kuttner, Konrad Lueg, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter — had begun playing satirically and productively with Pop's consumerist model.
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Herstik first started toying around with spirituality in the 80's, but kept her curiosity under wraps since soul-searching was often derided due to the hyper-consumerist boom of the decade.
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Shopify's Garage group is a product skunkworks of sorts, and it's launching a new app called Frenzy today, focused on flash sales, just in time for that most consumerist of holidays — Thanksgiving.
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According to a report from Consumerist, Comcast targeted one particular user with letters, phone calls, and finally pop-up adverts for an upgraded modem, following changes to Comcast's services in the area.
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"In a consumerist society, we are not meant to buy one pair of jeans and then be satisfied," Cederström and Spicer write, and the same, they think, is true of self-improvement.
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That it's a consumerist shitshow that uses our powerlessness against the effects of oxytocin to convince us to buy polyester-filled stuffed animals that were stitched together by child slaves in Malaysia.
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Valentine's Day is known to be a day dedicated to displaying love in a deeply consumerist way; buying giant teddy bears, heart shaped balloons, expensive chocolates, the list goes on and on.
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The imagery often came from lifestyle magazines, aerial photography, and also family albums, and their cold, distanced style held up a mirror to the new Federal Republic's consumerist vapidity and Nazi inheritance.
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"The Emoji Movie" is the apotheosis of Hollywood's consumerist blockbuster trend, where the smartphone is recast as a playground, and tech companies spin their products into sparking baubles to sell to children.
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However, now visitor experience is assessed by criteria associated with visitors' needs, which can include: social interaction (meeting friends for drinks, for example), spiritual sustenance, emotional connection, intellectual challenge, or consumerist indulgence.
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When the weather cools off, the colorful tents are inhabited by people of all walks of life who seek a closer connection to nature, and a refuge from the gulf's blustering consumerist culture.
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Rejecting Red Dead Redemption 2 might be, at the end of the day, a moral necessity, or it might be an empty gesture of consumerist intent that, by itself, doesn't actually help anyone.
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The distinct shift in period aesthetics, character focus, and even speech patterns is at first jarring, but comes together as it unfolds, never once betraying its dedication to comically critiquing our consumerist culture.
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And while followers were quick to note its "revolutionary" qualities, Steak-umm was actually using one of the oldest ad tricks in the book: disguising an ad campaign under an anti-consumerist cloak.
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So, if you imagined history as the process by which liberal institutions—representative government, free markets, and consumerist culture—become universal, it might be possible to say that history had reached its goal.
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"That they appear irrelevant to American historians, aberrant to contemporary evangelicals and abhorrent to the average consumerist is a signature of the victory capitalism has achieved over the American religious imagination," he writes.
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Presenting them in this distorted light is a way to make museumgoers (or hotdog-eaters) think not only about how they see cars in general, but also the glossy, consumerist culture that cars represent.
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In fall of 2014, Gamergate supporters successfully pressured Intel to pull its ads from the gaming website Gamasutra over an article it had published by a writer criticizing the consumerist culture among video gamers.
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There are many faces, generally doll like and serene, and they are mostly floating among or drowning in a disorderly mass of branded signs and symbols — the communicative and consumerist appurtenances of contemporary life.
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In the abstract, yes, but taken in aggregate, this consumerist donation structure creates a context of so-called slacktivism, giving brands and consumers alike a low-effort way to support social and political causes.
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This problem of practicality is where we get to one of the hidden traps of the KonMari method: While it's sometimes thought of as the philosophy of a minimalist, anti-consumerist lifestyle, it's not.
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Most associated with the Pop Art movement of the 1960s, Erró is known for his intricate collages of found images, sourced from commercial advertising and comic books, amounting to wild flurries of consumerist critique.
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But it did become possible for an American woman to cultivate a relationship to feminism that was primarily consumerist: There were feminist TV shows to watch, feminist celebrities to follow, feminist clothes to buy.
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There's a persistent longing that threads through this book — not so much for the consumerist dream represented by Sherman Oaks, but for the secure relationships she saw her wealthy, white classmates taking for granted.
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Hogre cites influences, including Guy Debord's critiques of consumerist culture and the philosophical anarchism of Max Stirner, which could be seen in their and doublewhY's recent exhibition Moral Panic at South London's WAR Gallery.
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Mai and Nguyen approach the subject through different perspectives: Mai's work veers on the macabre and is strictly focused on the toll a consumerist culture like Lolita takes on those who partake in it.
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I have long worried that such insulated art encourages artists and viewers alike to retreat into themselves and their segregated identities, amounting to an obsessional apolitical narcissism that is typically encouraged in consumerist society.
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"It's a consumerist society, so you don't have the same kind of idealism," said Daly, who is now the director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
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The "I can" generation differed from the "I need" era of urgent public service provision after the Second World War, and the "I want" consumerist generation of the 1980s in Reagan's America and Thatcher's Britain.
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Tourists line up with handfuls of cash to purchase the latest ribbon-winning artworks, while artists and merchants sell their wares along a commercial thoroughfare full of consumerist distractions, from discount jewelry to Gucci clothing.
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When it was released in 1999, Fight Club was seen by many critics as a damning statement about consumerist culture, the de-humanizing roles forced on men by American capitalism, and the excesses of masculinity.
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While innumerable think pieces have impugned millennials' culture of "self-care"—and argued that the generation born in the 19703s and '90s is fragile, consumerist, and distracted—Ehrenreich redirects such criticisms toward an older crowd.
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Viewed at a more intellectual level as satirical Pop Art, the paintings conflate different kinds of consumerist desire: for sex, for food and, less precisely, for some kind of blissful, unhurried state of fulfilled fantasy.
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The contradictions of modern American democracy we'd tried to convince ourselves had been vanquished—racism, sexism, Gilded Age-style consumerist excess, the merging of the political class with the economic elite, hubris abroad—remained entrenched.
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When it was released in 1999, Fight Club was seen by many critics as a damning statement about consumerist culture, the de-humanizing roles forced on men by American capitalism, and the excesses of masculinity.
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" In the aftermath of the 9/303 terrorist attacks, President Bush gave this famed aphorism a consumerist spin when he told airline employees, "When [the terrorists] struck, they wanted to create an atmosphere of fear.
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But also, as I watched the models — all of them young and thin — marching beneath words related to power and pleasure, I found myself thinking about a different problem altogether: the hypocrisy of consumerist feminism.
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You've realized that, in curating what we call taste, you've unwittingly become part of the system, the media-driven consumerist machine that creates the desire to possess things you'll likely never be able to afford.
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The model for all of these women is, of course, Gwyneth Paltrow, an icon of consumerist feminism who embodies what has come to be the holy trinity of celebrity personas: mother, healthful-living expert, entrepreneur.
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I find it embarrassing to place a high importance on gifts from my partner — especially when you share concerns about consumerist culture, whoops — but I felt like an after thought when he didn't come through.
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You combine that with what I think of as an increasingly consumerist model — students are viewed as consumers, versus [being there to] educate them — and too often we see campuses giving into the calls for censorship.
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"The Age of Spectacle" by Tom Dyckhoff, a British architecture critic, is the story of the transformation of cities from the dense manufacturing hubs of the early 20th century to the consumerist meccas they are today.
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Well, my lavish consumerist dream is starting to come true, and GrokStyle is one company working to make it so — in this case, automatically identifying furniture and home decor from just about any picture or angle.
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If that weren't frustrating enough, according to Consumerist, the glitch caused the Delta website and airport screens to show incorrect flight information, so many people had no idea if their flights were canceled or on time.
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"The girl-woman is being urged to provide a tough, mature, serious, legal, and punitive version of competitive, consumerist individualism," Badiou writes, while the boys provide a "weak, adolescent, frivolous, lawless, or even borderline criminal" version.
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The flat, featureless grid in the renderings represents not only an Internet-like matrix, but a state in which all people live a nomadic existence, freed from repetitive work, consumerist desires, hierarchies of power and violence.
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Her work tends to focus on the consumerist culture, so she was immediately intrigued by the vehicles—how the owners were obsessed with how they appeared, and went to great lengths to personalize each of them.
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Mr. Hekkert said that he believed that in the last five to 10 years, the Western world consumerist reliance on instant gratification — the belief that buying new shiny stuff made us happy — was losing its luster.
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There is an evangelical quality to Smith's practice: spreading the gospel of self-representation as a way to shape an ethnic identity which is not primarily conditioned by consumerist craving or the gaze of the colonizer.
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As a heritage resource, the Msheireb museums constitute a distinct, if not sophisticated, step forward for a city and culture that has been dominated by the effects of unusually rapid urban and consumerist development since the 1990s.
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Consumerist followed up on claims by Pai yesterday that net neutrality has killed investment, and it found that they didn't add up: all the big wired and wireless internet providers appear to have spent more in 2016.
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Now, at the peak (so far) of late capitalism, it's a buzzy consumerist hashtag thrown on gift guide listicles and Instagram ads for expensive essential oil blends, herbal "dusts," $67 candles, $9 silk pillowcases, $150 weighted blankets.
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It's a deeply cynical take on both the consumerist Western freedoms available to Lithuanians after their 1990 independence and on the fate of all human bodies — the women aren't so much living people as corpses in waiting.
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"People may be very surprised to know that disposable, single-use cups are not the invention of our modern consumerist society, but in fact can be traced back thousands of years," British Museum curator Julia Farley said.
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A natural draftsman with, as he put it, "a sarcastic outlook on life," in the 1970s he landed magazine gigs drawing political cartoons that skewered the newly formed, oil-rich Emirates for their pursuit of consumerist modernization.
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" Even a playful dance number about shopping becomes a sly critique of consumerist beauty standards, as characters frolic through malls and public plazas, belting out lyrics like, "The city will tell us what it is we lack.
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It certainly offers the opportunity to review the premise of total life-as-art as a relentless, consumerist drive requiring a philosophic element that anti-capitalist criticism, a-historical art curation, and anti-art postures do not possess.
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Both of those points are highly debatable — there's little competition in the wired broadband market, and Consumerist investigated the investment claims in early 2016 and found that internet providers were estimated to spend more in the coming year.
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While Limonta said she wished it were easier to buy textiles, she also does not want Cuba to adopt the same kind of "fast fashion" prevalent in consumerist economies where clothes are cheap but often disposable, generating trash.
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Luckily, there are some simple technological workarounds for users: forcing your browser to use HTTPS with an extension (something that will make your browsing more secure anyhow) should prevent Comcast from getting its teeth into your webpages. [Consumerist]
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And while pushing shopping carts is probably one of the only forms of exercise that sedentary, consumerist Americans engage in on a regular basis, the time may have come to let machines undertake even this minimally demanding task.
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Depending on your perspective and bank account, this airport is either the pinnacle of splendor or a consumerist hell where the shiny distractions are merely there to keep you inside and funneling more money into the airport's coffers.
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I guess that's the main reason it's now spread all over the internet—not because of the quality of the work but more because of the consumerist and reductive perspective blogs like Design You Trust put out there.
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So we have this whole mentality of always doing more that is built into our consumerist society, which, carried to an extreme, is really tragic because it's not the recipe for a good life for most of us.
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John Maynard Keynes popularized that term in 22000, referring to a psychological state in which people get a consumerist and entrepreneurial bug that allows them to forget their worries and let their optimism guide their economic decision-making.
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The better life that billions in low- and middle-income countries aspire to replicates the consumerist template of the Global North; compelling them to give up on that aspiration is like asking them to accept poverty for good.
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Since they start streaming the day after Thanksgiving, we fully plan to buck the mayhem of that hellish consumerist tradition known as Black Friday in favor of a nostalgic binge (while gorging on leftover stuffing and turkey, of course).
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It's important to note that given the duration of the loans and the payback period for the service, these tips can wind up being as much as the interest rates charged by payday lenders, according to the website Consumerist.
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Perhaps what were considered markers of my generation's privilege — intensive parenting, rigorous education and consumerist culture — are in fact our bane, making us self-centered and emotionally isolated, struggling to find independence and fulfillment in a fast-changing society.
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While I won't claim that hanging out at Barneys or ABC makes me an anti-consumerist rebel, I do feel a sneaky joy in how little I actually buy, even while benefiting so thoroughly from these palaces of consumption.
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The film tacitly functions as a critique of consumerist, power-hungry leaders, some of whom appear at the end of the film (including brief footage of the pope meeting with world leaders, including both Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump).
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Larry Harvey, the guru-like driving force behind Burning Man, the globally celebrated anti-establishment, anti-consumerist festival that he and a friend began 32 years ago on a San Francisco beach, died on Saturday at a hospital in San Francisco.
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At some point in that span, however, he happened upon vaporwave, that ill-begotten genre birthed at the end of the aughts that thrived on excavating old funk songs and slowing them down as a comment on consumerist culture or something.
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With the combination of fashion becoming such a consumerist market and creativity or expression being a by-factor, I found it important to express my feelings toward that by just creating what I wanted versus what the system tells us to.
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The conclusion that I drew was that, when it comes to our bodies and how we feel about them, almost no one escapes unscathed from the trap of consumerist culture, which creates an insatiable desire to be what you are not.
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This is an American crime story, in that we see in the rearview how the consumerist '90s could warp those who treated celebrity like a religion, how some were even willing to commit vile acts for a taste of rarefied air.
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Contemporary political action is focused on fueling the dynamics of an individualistic, consumerist economy; and green economics likewise holds consumer capitalism responsible both for the creation of a grossly unequal society, and for a concomitant despoliation of the natural environment.
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This handbook for the utopian-minded libertarians of the '21971s and '2200s has continued to inspire new generations of back-to-the-landers, along with the anti-consumerist adherents of Europe's "degrowth" movement and, recently, the tech bros of Silicon Valley.
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In the mid-1990s, soon after I stopped relaxing my hair, the prescient race and gender theorist Angela Davis warned about the devolution of natural black hair from a strong statement of political solidarity to an empty sign of consumerist acquisition.
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This what I wrote about that exhibition: Completely lacking in histrionics, without references to the mass media, and rather slow to reveal themselves, Humphrey's paintings require the kind of looking that an out-of-control, consumerist world long ago rejected.
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In the economic boom that followed, kawaii, defined as something both lovable and pitiable — which is to say, something lovable because it is naïve to forces larger than itself — provided both solace and consumerist distraction from dashed hopes for change.
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Rather than satirize rich men in suits, the show put the bull's-eyes on their trophy wives, painting them as vain parasites, symbols of greed—consumerist gargoyles who might absorb the fury that was more logically directed at Wall Street itself.
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Some of the instructions are too cute, but a few, like "Use the Winnings From a Lottery Scratchcard to Buy a Les Misérables Souvenir T-Shirt," cut through our compulsively consumerist mass-media culture right to its most bitter depths.
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Telling the truth with precision and rage and a visionary's eye, using both realism and fabulism, is one way to break through the white noise of a consumerist culture that tries to commodify post-apocalyptic fiction, to render it safe.
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The series began quite obviously as a Fight Club riff, but it's always been interested in the world the characters live in after the end of that film, when they try to dismantle capitalist, consumerist society by blowing up some buildings.
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Take the show's best bit: On one side of the stage, he is sitting in a chair, watching his TV, in a mask, giving the finger, and laughing and gurgling like the consumerist moron he is and we all are.
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It wasn't that America was equivalent to Germany or that American propaganda was equivalently awful; rather, it was that America's culture industry smuggled its consumerist ethos into its art with a similar goal of producing conformity of thought and behavior.
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The standard knock against Mr. Robot in its first season was that its main philosophy, espoused by Elliot, was basically a knockoff of Fight Club — anti-capitalist and anti-consumerist in a way that seemed reactionary at best and completely misinformed at worst.
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According to the lawsuit obtained by Consumerist, Curtis' company failed to adhere to the terms of a contract it entered into with the city, promising to fix-up the North Minneapolis property and complete a list of basic improvements within a year.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Artist and designer Philip Colbert, whose surrealist clothes have been worn by Lady Gaga and Rita Ora, brings pop art back to British painting with a new show that comments on consumerist culture, climate change and our appetite for social media.
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But while Amazon's push into fashion is on the one hand somewhat recent, it also goes back years, as a reference point in a more general mantra about how the company needs to focus on the essential, recurring items of modern consumerist life.
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Instead, it's marked by a combination of high energy, moral simplicity, and earnest anti-consumerist cynicism — a desire to ditch the dull business of a respectable life not to imagine something greater, but simply to revel in freedom of movement at its margins.
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This, of course, in spite of the fact that he still has investments in oil and gas companies, not to mention an undying faith in the consumerist capitalistic system that led the planet to the point of collapse in the first place.
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We can all learn something from folks like Mr. Money Mustache, who is credited with popularizing the idea of hyper-frugal, anti-consumerist living and saving a significant chunk of your salary so you can either retire early or pursue more rewarding work.
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So as feminists look around for places to turn their moral energy, the consumerist trajectory of their movement is worth contemplating, and the suspicious gaze that 1980s feminism once turned on the flesh trade in all its forms might be worth recovering.
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Each year, approximately 70,000 people converge on Black Rock City, the temporary town on the sands of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, for Burning Man, the weeklong anti-establishment, anti-consumerist festival known for its performance art, music and outlandish costumes.
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The abundance of crushed car parts in Chamberlain's work aligned it with Pop Art's manipulation of consumerist culture, while the single-mindedness of its formal and material constraints has earned the artist a place in Dia:Beacon's pantheon of mostly male Minimalist masters.
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Even with these strategies, there is a limit to the number of people any ecosystem — including the great ecosystem of the planet Earth — can accommodate, especially given the energy-intensive, chemical-intensive, consumerist lifestyles of Americans and affluent people around the world.
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Yet besides the allure of the product itself, the Nutella Riots (as they have, perhaps somewhat hyperbolically been dubbed) remind us of another aspect of human behavior that comes around all too often during this late, hyper-consumerist stage of the capitalist experiment.
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If the same level of emissions continues, if green energy does not replace fossil fuels and if the consumerist Western lifestyle keeps spreading, the world has 25 years before the atmosphere becomes saturated with gases and nothing can be done to save it, he predicted.
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Earlier this decade, the publisher was voted the "worst company in America" by Consumerist readers two years in a row, thanks to things like Mass Effect 3's controversial ending, and the decision to make the hotly anticipated SimCity 5 an always-online experience.
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Our government has always feared the evil consumerist empire that is the United States of America, so it's great news that the contraceptive that is the easiest to get your hands on in Venezuela (although that's a relative term here) is called SEX USA.
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Their outsized expectations of what marriage can and should provide—perpetual excitement, comfort, sexual bliss, intellectual stimulus, and so on—together with their callow, "consumerist" approach to romantic choices, leave them ill-equipped to cope with the inevitable frustrations and longueurs of the long haul.
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The fantasy, formed around the consumerist obsessions of two boys raised watching Saturday morning television, demanded a goal, a destination, a way to feel like we hadn't just spent a precious Saturday staring listlessly into space while tucked between the folds of discount dresses.
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The logic will be egalitarian but ultimately consumerist: It's not just toxic incels who want sexual intimacy they can't achieve, and if a technological substitute is available for the more sympathetic sort of unhappy celibate, well, it's their body and their money and their choice.
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Most New Yorkers think of Times Square as a barren consumerist wasteland, but one incredible thing does happen there: by turning creators loose on the world's most famous intersection, Times Square Arts turns it into a gigantic public platform for contemporary performance and visual arts.
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Much of that money has recently been used to push the Free File Act of 2016, which, according to Consumerist, seeks to "lock in the public-private partnership with the Free File Alliance," a consortium of the top tax preparation agencies, including Intuit and H&R Block.
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Despite Lunar New Year's deep-seated traditions, it has devolved into somewhat of a consumerist holiday: It's tradition for people to buy loved ones gifts or exchange money (which encourages spending), and it's even considered good fortune to ring in the new year with new stuff.
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I wondered at first about the use of the shopping cart — whether it had a consumerist angle — and then thought of how the homeless and indigent in New York City and other cities tend to keep their things in shopping carts, which function as makeshift lockers and suitcases.
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That they appear irrelevant to American historians, aberrant to contemporary evangelicals, and abhorrent to the average consumerist is a signature of the victory capitalism has achieved over the American religious imagination, and a sign of how far American Christians have strayed from the values their Messiah held most dear.
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"If Obamacare is in fact not repealed, we will find tactics to shallow out any Obamacare costs and core strategies to pass that cost onto consumers in order to protect our shareholders best interests," he said, nakedly attempting to summon up a consumerist rage over slightly more expensive pepperoni.
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The annual gathering of revelers dressed as Santa Claus may have originated in San Francisco as a radical act of anti-consumerist mischief, but it has since morphed into a worldwide day of debauchery and excess that feels just about right for our sinking-ship hellscape of a reality.
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I mean it makes sense that the winter holiday is a bigger hit, because the Christmas holidays are way more amenable to the consumerist death-drive with which the West has replaced its soul, so, that probably explains why celebrating the holidays features so prominently in film and music.
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Brady raised some hackles in 2015 by wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, but the whole of his career has been as anodyne and consumerist as Michael Jordan's; if he ever entertained a thought about anything besides defensive alignments and UGG sales figures, he's kept it to himself.
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He is one of the peacenik social democrats who considered Mr Blair too Atlanticist and market-liberal, who reckon Labour can win elections in a consumerist, post-Thatcher country on a platform of more redistribution and state interference, but who also recognise the importance of credibility and presentation.
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Before you start to panic, it hasn't been officially confirmed that the 2 for $5 deal will become a national promotion, but Consumerist reports seeing ads for the deal in Des Moines, IA, and Kansas City, MO. Of course, angry Twitter users are all over the potential controversy.
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Sex and the City has long been lambasted for its inaccuracies and omissions, but it endures 20 years on because of all the details it got right: At the turn of the millennium, New York really was becoming more selfish, more consumerist, and more focused on the ambitious individual.
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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?), Ward's strengths lie in his exploration of diasporic identity and African-American culture.
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The end of the series cements Fan's role as a vehicle for the consumerist market, with shots of her posing in a studio and her made-up face on posters that plaster a department store, billboards, the sides of a truck, and even the packaging of fruit cups.
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I may be a quitter, a product of a consumerist culture that demands instant gratification, but I despair of coming up with a rigorous consistent theory of what distinguishes demented mothers from chickens in time for all the people whose mothers have dementia (I am one of them).
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She dissects the culture the country has been metabolizing for the past decades, and the consumerist messages we receive day in and day out on social media (which are, of course, no longer framed as brands selling us products, but instead about us being brands, and actual brands being lifestyles).
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While Comcast insists that the pop-ups, images of which were published by Consumerist, are merely an educational effort designed to ensure that customers are running up-to-date, fully patched equipment, it's not unreasonable to want to be able to disable these pop-ups from interrupting your web browsing experience.
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"The Unintended Reformation," by Brad Gregory, a history professor at Notre Dame, is noted as an example of work that posits a "road not taken," one in which medieval Christianity could have produced a modern world much like our own, only better: less consumerist, free from relativism, more humanly fulfilling.
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In his installation, "Made in China" (1997-98), languid stuffed animals view mindless images of a dispiriting age in slide shows and on TV while surrounded by a sea of consumerist crap — bottles of cooking sauces, plastic toys and dolls, jigsaw puzzles, balloons, computer parts, a bathtub lined with silver fabric.
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The environment will not be saved by a consumerist mind-set in which the developed world rapidly throws out its consumer products to replace them with brand-new, more-energy-efficient consumer products, as if the environment can be saved by a fleet of shiny new Priuses bought on credit.
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They insist upon a certain kind of hyper-consumerist lifestyle: […] not capital but the vector enters the flesh and commands it, and not just as meat, but also as information, through monitoring its stages, through modifying its functions with drugs that alter chemical signals, through patenting aspects of life as design.
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We know we always say Wild Beasts are writing music about sex, but we'll never stop applauding them for that carnal honesty, and the same goes for the band's latest song "Get My Bang," which Thorpe assures isn't actually about sex, but rather, about the consumerist thrill of Black Friday.
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Online writing often willfully or ignorantly misrepresented the aims of the genre; its Know Your Meme entry summarizes vaporwave as "a satire of corporate and consumerist culture and modern capitalism, specifically as a critique of mainstream EDM," even when nothing in formative releases ever seemed to gesture towards EDM sounds or structures.
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The end of the 20th century was coinciding with a new era of American consumerist hegemony, where the only Nazis were "soup Nazis," where the only problems left to agonize over were "first-world problems," and where any committed political or ideological point of view was correspondingly irrelevant, tone-deaf or simply uncool.
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On good days, I can take a yoga class and still feel like life's potential is still just around the corner if I'm just open to it; on bad ones, I feel such futility, like I've squandered my own youth and beauty in the hall of mirrors that is our consumerist society.
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While certainly a ludicrous legal defense (he was sentenced to 10 years of probation, until he violated that in 2016 and spent two years in jail), it's a fair assessment of what afflicts a corporate-consumerist society like ours, with individuals across the class system focused on the dogged pursuit of more money and material.
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The case for Blair, Schröder, even Persson in Sweden was: the right is in power in a way it has not been before (in Britain and Germany it had been almost hegemonic), we are in despair, the working class is fragmenting and the electorate is evolving in a more consumerist, more market-liberal direction.
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Lesson learned: If someone offers you something for free, you should probably just take it because it costs zero dollars and makes an interesting story, even if the non-financial costs to your ability to be a rational independent citizen trying to maintain your humanity in a consumerist world are arguably worth much more.
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China is interesting because it bears so many parallels to the UK. That sort of transition into an extreme communist Maoist society—and a society unlike a lot of communist societies where the people really believe it, and it came up from the grassroots—into a society in which people are highly consumerist and capitalist.
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The character of Durden is often quoted by disaffected male users for his anti-consumerist rhetoric ("Things you own end up owning you"), his critique of the feminisation of society ("I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need"), and his rejection of liberal individualism ("You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake").
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But don't let it sidetrack you from Pape's more pugnacious work with the camera, from her Super 8 footage shot in a favela on the sea to her documentary "A Mão do Povo" ("The Hand of the People"), from 1975, which contrasts indigenous Brazilian art and handicraft with consumerist junk in Brazil's big cities.
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Pulling from what look like adverts and comic strips made in the 50s and 60s, back when American family life was unabashed in its depiction as a sterile and rigid consumerist culture, Montreal-based artist and illustrator Pierre-Paul Pariseau transports old fashioned characters into a radiant dream worlds that play with your perceptions of depth, scale, and time.
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Even the most casual observer of modern China can see that a contradiction festers at the heart of Chinese politics: how can this consumerist, mercantilist economic superpower—with its stockmarkets, property bubbles and flamboyant billionaires—be ruled by a party that calls itself Communist, insists it practices socialism and crushes any attempt by workers or peasants to assert their rights?
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Highlights of Neistat's trip (Trigger warning: It may make you sick with consumerist envy): A fully stocked minibar Caviar Glendfiddich 21-year-old malt Grey Goose Vodka A shower A bed with a pillow and a duvet Slippers Pajamas Smoked mackerel with wasabi mayonnaise on pumpernickel Marinated feta with eggplant An extensive list of gourmet food none of us quite understand Jealous yet?
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As thought balloons exposing the preoccupations of a young, married couple, these signifiers (quotes from Ludwig Wittgenstein and Moby-Dick, silly photo-booth portraits, and a minimalist poem by a teenage girl, among other private moments and public-facing statements) take their cue from the picture-messaging and bright surfaces of Pop, while looking beyond the hollow, consumerist side of contemporary life.
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This is a particularly useful description because it's happened so consistently across the last few decades: Whenever there's a dispute within feminism about a particular social change or technological possibility, you should bet on the side that takes a more consumerist view of human flourishing, a more market-oriented view of what it means to defend the rights and happiness of women.
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Bosch's already absurdist symbols are pushed to the height of consumerist excess: The nude figures of Adam and Eve are outfitted in graphic, smiley-face prints; Jesus flashes a peace sign emoji; and, near the end, a great explosion nukes Eden (fire emoji), sending civilization back to a state of nature (tree emoji) and making hell freeze over (snowflake emoji).
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When one of the Tidying Up episodes starts with parents telling their child that they're not going to take him to Toys 'R' Us because they're all going to learn about "being happy with how much [they] already have," that's their projection — Kondo, who of course peddles a few products of her own, does not actually go so far as to advise against consumerist impulses.
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" (Peeps themselves have only been around since the 1950s, when the mechanized process that makes their identical little marshmallow bodies was invented by a candy maker named Bob Born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.) She also writes that dramatized Peeps "sit, wide-eyed, at the intersection of consumerist kitsch and a surprisingly earnest engagement with current events and history, to say nothing of the meticulous craftsmanship required for their construction.
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At the very least it is a grave mistake for feminists to assume that because the moralism of the past was often patriarchal and sexist, they must always choose "consenting adults" individualism over a more holistic morality, a presumption for choice over a defense of human dignity, the logic of the market over more communitarian alternatives, a consumerist interchangeability of the sexes over a social architecture that respects their differences.
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In the crassness of the writing, it has often been argued, there is actually a critique, an understanding—reinforced by frequent narratorial asides as well as writerly exegeses in interviews and essays—that this desiccated landscape of human relationships is what one gets when the 1960s assault on heterosexual monogamy arrives, through the wasteland of the 1980s, at the internet-driven, globalized, and consumerist approach to life of recent decades.
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As The Consumerist reports, the aircraft manufacturer has filed a patent application for a... When he was looking to create a new game for the Famicom Disk System — an add-on for the NES that never launched outside of Japan — designer Shigeru Miyamoto built a prototype in which two players... Huawei has just announced its first 2-in-1 Windows 10 device here at Mobile World Congress, and it's called the MateBook.
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As spotted earlier by The Consumerist, an arbitration notice states that Pokemon Go users automatically agree to waive their rights to any future trial by jury or class action lawsuit unless they opt out of a binding clause in the T&Cs… ARBITRATION NOTICE: EXCEPT IF YOU OPT OUT AND EXCEPT FOR CERTAIN TYPES OF DISPUTES DESCRIBED IN THE "AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE" SECTION BELOW, YOU AGREE THAT DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND NIANTIC WILL BE RESOLVED BY BINDING, INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION, AND YOU ARE WAIVING YOUR RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY OR TO PARTICIPATE AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS ACTION OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING.
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"I'm not brave or proud of nothing / I just want to kill something / Too bad that nowadays / You just point and click," he drones on "The Happiest Place on Earth," the lack of movement in his voice echoing the stasis that nudges so many into service; while on "Mall of America" he speaks to his own predicament and the music business which places financial growth over artistic impulse: "They say it's murder on your folk career / To make a rock record with the 'Disappeared,'" he barks, the lines a wry scowl at the suits who'd try to keep him in line (though Read Music, Speak Spanish, as with all Oberst's music, was released on his own label, Saddle Creek Records.) In exploring different voices, Oberst's lyrics across the album explore the various areas where the consumerist drive challenges and sometimes overtakes essential humanity.
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