{"id":19022,"date":"2013-12-12T20:19:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T20:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/consumerism\/"},"modified":"2013-12-12T20:19:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T20:19:46","slug":"consumerism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/consumerism\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumerism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Consumerism<\/a><\/p>\n

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tetw<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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A Tetw reading list<\/a><\/h3>\n

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The Gollum Effect by Venkat Rao<\/span><\/a><\/strong> – Gollum is both employee and consumer. A prosumer locked in a death embrace with a product. He is a raving fan. <\/p>\n

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed by David Cain<\/a> – Companies seek to encourage the public\u2019s habit of casual or non-essential spending whenever they can\u2026 <\/p>\n

Consumer Vertigo by Virginia Postrel<\/span><\/a><\/strong> – A new wave of social critics claim that freedom\u2019s just another word for way too much to choose. Here\u2019s why they\u2019re wrong. <\/p>\n

Inconspicuous Consumption by Virgina Postrel<\/span><\/a><\/strong> – African Americans not only have less wealth than whites with similar incomes, they also have more of their assets tied up in cars. <\/p>\n

Sweatpants in Paradise by Molly Young<\/span><\/a><\/strong> – It is sometimes possible to define the depth of an experience by means of how radically it slows or hastens your sense of time. Swimming, fighting, nightmaring, enduring a migraine, having sex: these are all activities that move at exceptional rates. Shopping, too, and if you don\u2019t believe me, just enter a mall before sundown and see how you feel when you reemerge into darkness. <\/p>\n

How Not to Offend by Marshall McLuhan<\/span><\/a><\/strong> – If it is a duty to buy those appliances which free the body from toil and thus enable housewives not to hate their husbands, equally urgent is the duty to \u201cbe dainty and fresh.\u201d <\/p>\n

Nothing Grows Forever by Clive Thompson<\/span><\/a><\/strong> – How can we make the global economy work for 7 billion humans? Stop buying so much stuff. <\/p>\n

The Truth About Money by Gregg Easterbrook<\/span><\/a><\/strong> – No matter how you chart the trends in earning and spending, everything is up, up, up. But if you made a chart of American happiness since the end of World War II, the lines would be as flat as a marble tabletop.<\/p>\n

Selling Out by David McRaney<\/span><\/a><\/strong> – Both consumerism and capitalism are driven by competition among consumers for status.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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