Posts Tagged ‘consumerism’
Encomium Aletudinis * – Part I
November 23rd, 2009 by lifeproof
Recently, the Japanese government has issued a law that determines normal body size and weight of a citizen. According to this new law, it is illegal to be overweight in Japan. The overweight person–and his/her employer–will face consequences. The person will get a compulsory physician visits and the employer will be fined and forced to [...]
Tags: aletudo, BMI Calculator, body mass index, conspicuous consumption, consumerism, encomium aletudinis, fat, fatness, Kids Health, MedicineNet, National Institutes of Health, obese, obesity, overweight, The Praise of Fatness
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Greenness of Guinness
November 5th, 2009 by lifeproof
Guinness joins the brands who exploit the global warming and green thinking. The new commercial and tag line of the brand uses the “green ideology” that is one of the primary things that sells a product.
The new commercial is introduced by Creativity Online:
This new Guinness ad from AMV BBDO London introduces a new tag line [...]
Tags: advertisement, advertising, AMV BBDO, BBDO, Bring It To Life, consumer, consumerism, Creativity Online, go green, Good Things Come to Those Who Wait, green, green thinking, Guinness, Johnny Green, tag line
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Homo Economicus
October 14th, 2009 by lifeproof
This is not a new term, it is almost as old as Darwin’s evolution theory and even older than Veblen’s theory of the leisure class. The term just popped into my mind last night walking down the street thinking about survival of the fittest in the urban jungle and that “fitness” does not have to [...]
Tags: Capitalism, Charles Darwin, consumerism, Darwin, dasein, economy, evolution, homo economicus, John Stuart Mill, Michel Foucault, phenomenology, primacy of economics, rags to riches, the medium is the message, theory of the leisure class, Thorsten Veblen, urban jungle
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Buy Buy Green
September 17th, 2009 by lifeproof
I know, right? This is getting out of control.
New packaging designs for the same bottled water and one is more expensive than the other because it has a cuter design. The same goes for the milk and coke. Have you seen Pepsi and Coca Cola going green for instance? Other than that as a few [...]
Tags: advertisement, advertising, Coca Cola, Coke, commercial, consumer, consumer culture, consumerism, creative design, design, go green, green, green thinking, Pepsi, politics, science, scienticism, Sony, think green, TV commercials
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