Thinking About Cultures of Consumption
My Blog for COMM3p75 at Brock University
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Week 8: Economic Alternatives to Endless Growth Consumption
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This week's theme is how we may rethink how we measure success and happiness, and introduces the course's core concept of Plentitude...
Monday, 26 November 2012
Week 7: Linking Television, Materialism and the Environment
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There...were a lot of things presented this week. Mainly, I believe, about how Television has the ability to distort our realities and encou...
Week 6: The Endless Growth Economy
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This week, we were introduced the idea that our exploitation of resources is unsustainable. I will go into that concept a little later on. ...
Week 5: Indicators of Our Culture of Consumption
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According to today's seminar, some people have seen the blogs of others. Now everyone knows I'm an arrogant asshole. Now I'm g...
Sunday, 25 November 2012
Fruity Rumpus Narcissist Factory Part 2.5
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Now for something somewhat related to what I've been talking about. I remember earlier in the course the professor mentioning that havin...
Week 4: Stories and Consumption in the 21th Century
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Ok, no more long posts. I promise. Mostly because I am practically 1200% done. First off is an article originally published in Pediatri...
Week 3: Stories that Taught Us to Consume
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Now for my thoughts on all our readings. I hope looking back on them from my vantage point of being at the end of the course can provide som...
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