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Why we keep panic shopping even when the store shelves are stocked. "Whenever I go to Walmart or Stop & Shop, my natural reflex has become to toss a package of paper towels in the basket. And I can feel myself getting a little uneasy _...Read More_
Why we keep panic shopping even when the store shelves are stocked. "Whenever I go to Walmart or Stop & Shop, my natural reflex has become to toss a package of paper towels in the basket. And I can feel myself getting a little uneasy _...Read More_
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It's obvious, logical, natural, even mathematical that our civilization is going to collapse, that we have overshot the sustainable carrying capacity of the earth and ecosystem that supports us. But people are fed false hope, false _...Read More_
It's obvious, logical, natural, even mathematical that our civilization is going to collapse, that we have overshot the sustainable carrying capacity of the earth and ecosystem that supports us. But people are fed false hope, false _...Read More_
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"In the images of our culture reacting to Covid-19 — both those of desertion and those of consumption — we are offered not only fear and entertainment but new opportunities to “confer meaning.” This _...Read More_
"In the images of our culture reacting to Covid-19 — both those of desertion and those of consumption — we are offered not only fear and entertainment but new opportunities to “confer meaning.” This _...Read More_
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Amanda Hess on the “American Dream,” Jersey’s new ultra mall/carnival ground where the corporate experience economy unveils its bleak and rather empty underbelly.
Amanda Hess on the “American Dream,” Jersey’s new ultra mall/carnival ground where the corporate experience economy unveils its bleak and rather empty underbelly.
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Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism: “when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your own flourishing.” Consumerism, particularly of the visual, has accelerated the peak-valley-peak of affective transition into a background noise of _...Read More_
Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism: “when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your own flourishing.” Consumerism, particularly of the visual, has accelerated the peak-valley-peak of affective transition into a background noise of _...Read More_
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“Shopping” could become as frictionless as organizing the objects you already own or liking their pixelated representations on social media. Objects would travel in and out of our homes buying and selling themselves without us paying _...Read More_
“Shopping” could become as frictionless as organizing the objects you already own or liking their pixelated representations on social media. Objects would travel in and out of our homes buying and selling themselves without us paying _...Read More_
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Notes on the STUFF GLUT: 'Given the volume of consumer choices now available, the retail machine has come to require a ghost - whether algorithm, influencer, or snazzy ad tech - to help a product follow [its consumer] around the web.'
Notes on the STUFF GLUT: 'Given the volume of consumer choices now available, the retail machine has come to require a ghost - whether algorithm, influencer, or snazzy ad tech - to help a product follow [its consumer] around the web.'
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“At the end of the 19th century, American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen said that people take their cues about what to consume from the social class immediately above their own. They want things just beyond their reach.”
“At the end of the 19th century, American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen said that people take their cues about what to consume from the social class immediately above their own. They want things just beyond their reach.”
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In new doc, Braun industrial designer DIETER RAMS, 86, intimates that he might have chosen a different career path had he realized how his work would promote a culture of over-consumption, contributing to climate change.
In new doc, Braun industrial designer DIETER RAMS, 86, intimates that he might have chosen a different career path had he realized how his work would promote a culture of over-consumption, contributing to climate change.
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"You cannot comprehend the level of inequality in our current world or even just our nation, but we choose to continue to live like this."
"You cannot comprehend the level of inequality in our current world or even just our nation, but we choose to continue to live like this."