According to Frampton (1983), critical regionalism also moving in this direction and proposed "resistant architecture" against prevailing consumerism and centralised power and control (Frampton 1986), opening up to an idea of the environment and the landscape as an instrument to resist the globalising, standardising tendencies (Shannon 2006).
As a parent, however, I've come to believe that the secular form of Christmas is a sad ode to the rampant consumerism and out-of-control capitalism of American society.
These custom-made electronic products, created with live data and bespoke software, not only look like misshapen, skewed versions of the products we all know and love, many of them are interactive too, playing with ideas about technology and design, consumerism, capitalism, media control, and corporate social responsibility.
"The Incredible Shrinking Woman" is most amusing when it is considering the malpractices of big, greedy business, observing outof-control consumerism and making gentle fun of one of Pat Kramer's community-spirited, ecology-minded friends, Judith Beasley (also played by Miss Tomlin), a door-to-door seller of organic cosmetics.
This prescient novel takes us to a future where freedom is replaced with mind-control through consumerism and drugs.
The introduction of "anti-professional" incentives such as external surveillance and control as well as the incentives of consumerism can be viewed as the start of a negative spiral [ 36], as some of the interviewees also indicate.
When Mr. Striphas's book, "The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control," first appeared in paperback in 2011, Amazon sold it for $17.50, the author said.
Marx noted the role of mass media and consumerism as parallel forms of cultural control, anticipating Zygmunt Bauman, Thomas Mathiesen, Mark Andrejevic, Hille Koskela on mass media and consumerism and also that of Oscar Gandy, that actually shows how surveillance works as a consumer sphere process.
The mix of consumerism and authoritarianism that one finds in Vietnam and China is presumably a more palatable model — privatization, but with the state in firm control.
Of course, if you haven't spent a great deal of time thinking about the problems of consumerism, religion, and governmental control, then this is fantastic way to become familiar with these issues.
