| Our consumer society subjects many people's lives to the fetishism of the brand and the product. |
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| He was mocking the hollowness of the new consumer society before the sexual revolution. |
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| A further consequence of the great migration, although it has to be taken in conjunction with the economic miracle, was mass consumer society. |
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| At a deep philosophical level, we could start by questioning the very basis of our consumer society. |
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| The 1950s was a time when popular culture was racing ahead and society was caught in the middle between old values and the new consumer society. |
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| By 1970 the concept of duty evaporated in the affluently modeled consumer society. |
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| Bond's preoccupation with brand names made him a precursor of the consumer society. |
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| Many aspects of cultural production and the rise of the creative industries are central to the continued propagation of a consumer society. |
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| Jim Shaw, Raymond Pettibon and Larry Johnson engaged in a critique of consumer society by appropriating the language and images of the media. |
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| The late 1980s saw him gravitate towards everyday life in general and towards the consumer society in particular. |
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| The consumer society hungers for the deviant and unexpected. |
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| What are your proposals to enable every business to gain access to the consumer society, regardless of its size and business sector? |
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| The intervention and support of the Commission have humanized this practice of the consumer society. |
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| It must state strongly that we are a consumer society, but want primarily to maintain our production, including farm production. |
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| Often the model of the consumer society and ignorance of the value of things leads to confusion or even to hopelessness. |
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| Arman vilifies the consumer society which mistreats the object, throws it away, forgets it. |
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| In a consumer society where you are what you have, they remain virtually excluded. |
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| They also somehow seem to be symbolic of our throwaway consumer society. |
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| This return to the heart of the consumer society and abundance is a bit like a loud music. |
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| We are the first victims of the consumer society with our 10.000 euros bikes and all accessories and spare parts needed by this journey! |
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| Nowadays, in a consumer society, young people are fond of all kinds of objects. |
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| It is this multiplicity of choices that drives a consumer society. |
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| It becomes an amusing, ecological and activist vegetable garden, a symbol of the consumer society and a return to nature. |
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| The works of art, in both their form and vibrant pop colors, force the viewer to reflect on the opposition of our consumer society and the mass media to the meticulous work of the artist and craftswoman. |
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| In his works, Hamilton frequently incorporated the materials of consumer society. |
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| I noticed that the most disadvantaged populations were easily pleased and really focused on the essential, being far from the materialistic, consumer society that we are. |
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| Baudrillard, the French philosopher, is best known for his theory that consumer society forms a kind of code that gives individuals the illusion of choice while in fact entrapping them in a vast web of simulated reality. |
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| The odyssey of a calf, his becoming, through the mysteries of our consumer society, the course of the unpredictable route of its body scattering and transmogrifying as the merchant circuit captures and absorbs it. |
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| In late 2009, the credit consumer society, as promoted in the US, Canada and elsewhere, is still in the Great Recession hot seat, though it may have reached its limits and its capacity may be decimated. |
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| Darling of the elite or pariah of the consumer society? |
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| Through the medium of its catalogue, Buy-sellf strives to highlight the models and the limits of consumer society by confronting the most provocative and droll subjects. |
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| The need to reduce the negative impact of the consumer society on the environment: waste sorting and recovery centres, alternative energy sources. |
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| Diane Pacom: Girls, as usual, are more vulnerable to seduction by our consumer society because they're very much challenged by a lack of self-esteem. |
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| Deresiewicz's most valuable point is that our hyper-marketed consumer society is perilously shallow, often confusing purchased identities with more mindful outlooks, and excusatory rationales with genuine moral deliberation. |
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| If Bush ends up dropping the bomb on Baghdad, I'll have to make good use of everything that's available in our consumer society and its sorta-freedoms, while they still exist. |
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| In today's fast-paced consumer society, which tends to focus on the cheap and cheerful, it is important to anticipate customers' future needs, specialise in a niche market and exploit this with unique products. |
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| However, with all this innovation kicking into hyperdrive, our consumer society is obsessed with having the latest version of everything. |
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| Suddenly, our consumer society is doing a lot less consuming. |
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| A comment on China's new consumer society? |
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| In time, insurance became integral to consumer society. |
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| And in a consumer society, youth is extended. |
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| Second, the buy-it-now approach of the consumer society. |
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| The financial and economic crisis of 2008-2009 revealed the strategic importance of the consumer society, with the decreased spending in late 2008 and early 2009 affecting both company and government revenues. |
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| The momentum of current trends in political and economic development in the world, they would say, and the power of the consumer society to establish and perpetuate itself globally is too strong to challenge. |
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| In a consumer society, however, human life can easily be reduced to a purely biological reality, living matter which can be manipulated in the laboratory or the operating theatre. |
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| The youth in this territory, defined as those under the age of 25, are part of the consumer society in Canada and have high expectations in terms of employment and quality of life. |
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| Conversation topics include consumer society, the move away from Fordism, rising education costs, soaring inequalities, crowdsourcing, globalization and localism, and more. |
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