Sentence examples for forms of consumer capitalism from inspiring English sources

Through his daring escapes and incorrigible crime spree, "he became a very important emblem of resistance to forms of consumer capitalism, to the birth of the police state".

Posner, a sociologist influenced by the burgeoning New Age movement, argued that those women who had followed Friedan's counsel and sought to enter the workplace on a par with men had gained nothing but their own subjection to corporate culture, and would do well to cast aside career in favor of personal growth, forming a vanguard for the wholesale reformation of consumer capitalism.

All the detritus of consumer capitalism.

Or simply a more benign aspect of consumer capitalism?

For one thing, it runs search-and-rescue missions against the disposability of consumer capitalism.

It's also a satire on the engulfing tendencies of consumer capitalism.

The material about atomisation, alienation and the corrosive impact of consumer capitalism even felt old hat.

A few blocks away, Prada and Gucci welcome worshippers at the temples of consumer capitalism.

Unfortunately, however, this message of self-assertion above all dovetailed neatly with the needs of consumer capitalism.

In doing so he thought he could expose the lie at the heart of consumer capitalism and effect revolutionary change.

This article reviews the literature on consumption, including traditional accounts of consumption which see it as dictated by the machineries of consumer capitalism, and more recent theorizations which read it as an expression of individual agency and creativity.