Sustainable food production, the military-industrial complex, consumerism and media monopolies are all tackled in Brand's characteristic hodge-podge manner.
Like the industrial revolution, post-war consumerism and the technology revolution, we are in a state of massive change.
These birds reflect back an appallingly emblematic result of the collective trance of our consumerism and runaway industrial growth.
More accurately, the movement was "Art for Art's Sake" — the rallying cry of 19th-century aesthetes appalled by the ugliness of the industrial revolution and its vulgar consumerism.
The primacy accorded to the abstract legal principle of personal 'autonomy' within the bioethical framework reflects particular cultural values (individualism and consumerism) of Western industrial societies [ 45, 50, 114].
Collectively called "Technological Reliquaries," they were clearly sendups of Minimalism's industrial machismo and Pop's complicit consumerism — though at a time when a brutal war was building in Southeast Asia, they also hinted at larger politics.
And it is experiencing extraordinary rates of urban growth: the Suzhou Industrial Park is a cathedral to consumerism, while the lights at Harmony Times Square illuminate a surrounding urban sprawl littered with construction projects.
The Western credits thus helped Gierek's policy of consumerism and helped spur industrial growth, but just for a few years.
There are reflections on America's military might, its industrial clout, its treatment of minorities, its consumerism, its justice system, its marketing strategies, its religious evangelism, its celebrity worship, its interference with other governments.
There are reflections on America's military might, its industrial clout, its treatment of minorities, its consumerism, its justice system, its marketing strategies, its religious evangelism, its celebrity worship and its interference with other governments.
