conspicious consumption | conspicious consumption
Jan.01.2011
I’m hoping that in 2011 everyone has enough. The holidays lend themselves to this kind of rumination. So many people are hungry and cold while the rest of us celebrate our plenty. While I give to food and toy drives, make toy bags for homeless children, and host community meal events like everybody...
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Dec.27.2009
From the Margate Starbucks. (No where else to go.) A post-Christmas, post-hyper buying blast on luxury consumption and what it means.
Right before the holidays, Reuther's ran a story with the suggestive title, "Are Luxury Goods Guilt Inducing." (See this link, http://www.reuters.com/...
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Dec.05.2008
(Show of hands.) How many people have seen Adbusters?
This is that magazine where all the ads look like ads until you stop and look closer and you discover they’re anti-ads ... like those billboards “liberated” by the Billboard Liberation Front. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one paid ad in an...
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