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Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...Read more
Conscious daily
Magazine -> #13 Conscious projectFormerly professor at Cambridge and currently Full Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Florence, the historian Paul Ginsborg is an important point of reference for the world of socially committed voluntary and charitable organisations. It's a world that includes a vast number of persons who all feel the need to actively ...
continue..Feb 07, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: 911, blair, book, business, consumer, consumption, corporations, economic, economy, family, fiat, financial, florence, historian, internet | Leave A Comment »
I shop therefore I am
Magazine -> #5 The Dictatorship of the ConsumptionCasole d´Elsa, summer 2001, Surasi Kusolwong organises a stall market. The people know that there, for one thousand liras, the equivalent of half a euro today, they can buy all sorts of things they do not need: a pink plastic colander, a pair of Chinese slippers, stools, nor, later, would he have deemed it worthy to enlarge coffee cups, had he not...
continue..Dec 23, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: addiction, andy warhol, angela vettese, art, barbara kruger, bargains, biennale, cartesian, casole delsa, chinese, claes oldenburg, coffee, cogito, connection, consumption | Leave A Comment »
Sustainable over time
Magazine -> #13 Conscious projectBusiness and ethics: we discuss the issue with Sebastiano Maffettone, author of Etica Pubblica (Public Ethics) (Il Saggiatore, 2001), chief editor of the journal Filosofia e Questioni Pubbliche (Philosophy and Public Issues), lecturer of Political Philosophy and Social Ethics [ http://www.luiss.it ] and visiting professor at Harvard [ http://www.ha...
continue..Dec 01, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: behaviour, business, company, consumers, consumption, corporation, dogood gimmickery, eco system, efficiency, enterprise, ethic, ethics, fair trade, human beings, idea | Leave A Comment »
#5 The Dictatorship of the Consumption
#5 The Dictatorship of the Consumption -> MagazineShopaholic. Not really a disease, but almost. According to the most reliable theory of “compulsive shopping disorder”, i.e. the wild urge to shop, this condition is caused by some kind of mental impairment, emotional decompensation or social-cultural discomfort. This typically female syndrome is affecting men too and it is spreading all over th...
continue..Nov 18, 2003 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: 3x2, ariella risch, consumption, disease, europe, excessive, female syndrome, francesco bonami, intrusive, mental, passions, shop, shopaholic, social cultural, united states | Leave A Comment »
