http://www.metafilter.com/tags/consumerculture Posts tagged with 'consumerculture' at MetaFilter. Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:23:26 -0800 Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:23:26 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/53378/Consumption%2Das%2Dart <a href="http://www.obsessiveconsumption.com/">Obsessive Consumption</a> wants to know what you buy. Obsessive Consumption wants to know what you owe. Created by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kateconsumption/">Kate Bingaman</a> to showcase her love/hate relationship with money, shopping, branding, credit cards, celebrity, advertising and marketing, she documented all of her purchases for 28 months starting on January 22nd, 2002 and ending on April 22nd, 2004. Currently she is drawing a lot of her <a href="http://galleries.obsessiveconsumption.com/drawings/">purchases</a> and <a href="http://galleries.obsessiveconsumption.com/cc/">all of her credit card statements</a> until they are paid off. Her Obsessive Consumption <a href="http://galleries.obsessiveconsumption.com/shows/kcinstall5.php">installation in Kansas City</a> is particularly impressive. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.53378 Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:23:26 -0800 art consumerculture consumption obsession photography dead_ http://www.metafilter.com/37751/Culture%2DJamming%2DMyth <a href="http://www.thismagazine.ca/issues/2002/11/rebelsell.php" title="Angry about all that packaging? Irritated by all those commercials? Worried about the quality of the “mental environment”? Well, join the club. Anti-consumerism has become one of the most important cultural forces in millennial North American life, across every social class and demographic.">Hate consumer culture?</a> Authors of the new book, <a href="http://www.harpercollins.ca/rs/excerpt.asp" title="September 2003 marked a turning point in the development of western civilization. It was the month that adbusters magazine started accepting orders for the black spot sneaker, its own signature brand of subversive running shoes. after that day, no rational person could possibly believe that there is any tension between mainstream and alternative culture. after that day, it became obvious to everyone that cultural rebellion, of the epitomized by adbusters magazine, is not a threat to the system-it is the system.">Rebel Sell</a>, argue you've been co opted by the very consumer culture you thought you had <a href="http://adbusters.org/metas/corpo/blackspotsneaker/" title="Adbusters Black Spot Sneaker">r</a><a href="http://market.motherjones.com/shoes.html" title="The Mother Jones, Red mojo no sweat sneaker. be the first your block to walk the walk fair trade.">e</a><a href="http://www.subvertise.org/" title="Subvertising is the Art of Cultural resistance. It is the 'writing on the wall', the sticker on the lamppost, the corrected rewording of Billboards, the spoof T-shirt; but it is also the mass act of defiance of a street party. The key process involves redefining or even reclaiming our environment from the corporate beast.">j<a href="http://www.nologo.org/" title="no logo">e<a href="http://www.sniggle.net/index.php" title="the culture jammers encyclopaedia">c</a><a href="http://www.culturejamthefilm.com/" title="Jammers, cultural commentators, a billboard advertiser and a constitutional lawyer take us on a wild roller coaster ride through the back streets of our mental environment.">t</a><a href="http://www.revbilly.com/" title="REVEREND BILLY AND THE CHURCH OF STOP SHOPPING">e</a><a href="http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/books/schlosser.html" title="Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of The All American Meal">d</a></a></a> tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.37751 Sun, 12 Dec 2004 00:39:16 -0800 consumerculture consumerism philosophy squeak