... North, the global South, and in between. Discarded objects become critical signifiers of the fever of waste-producing consumerism—notably, though not exclusively, in the postwar, fast-growing Luanda where Chagas currently lives. By rearranging these objects into new configurations, Chagas is also...

...Susan Kart Market Imaginary represents a welcome departure from traditional documentary coverage of African peoples. By focusing on a historic market, the Marché Colobane, in Dakar, director Joanna Grabski subverts stereotypes and expectations of consumerism and art making in Senegal. Grabski...

... is Isek Body Kingelez, building with happened. colored scraps from a dysfunctional consumerism his Phantom Ville - Yet because the glitter and blinding surfaces of its buildings, the Ghost City. A metropolis that appears as a post-post Fata...

... in its brilliance, its commercially-styled hyperreality, and its insis• tent repetition of design. Thematically, the blatant consumerism...

... of cadavers as material for their white consumerism, making it theatre of violence. Margolles, difficult to distinguish them...

... This highlights the fact that truly everything is for consumer-driven society. Cohen comments on our sale and that today’s society is largely influenced contemporary lifestyle, where “anything is for sale by consumerism. The fact that Cohen’s shoes were and everything concludes in death,”17 and the way made...

... for the twenty-first century. consumerism and lack of recycling. The cloth pieces follow his movement These rich associations help make his into reusing materials, which...

..., and a culture of consumerism that partakes directly of the flows of globalization. It is where an ethic of tolerance is being created, likely to revive African aesthetic and cultural creativity in the same way as Harlem or New Orleans once did in the United States. Achille Mbembe is a professor at the European...

... in a similar fashion of the former, "The White Issue" depicts the front cover of Vogue, with a model in front of a landscape which colors could be reminiscent of the reddish-brown tones of African soil. Here, the artist con• tinues to emphasize the metaphors schemed by consumerism inviting the view...

... are As I already mentioned, it was important to push the compelled to think critically about consumerism, its effect conversation on cultural globalization in relation to some of on the ecosystem, and the fate of our common humanity the key sociopolitical and economic debates of today...

... episodes {Park Bench, 2000; Getaway, 2000) as well as points out to the challenges of a young democratic state facing the pitfalls of global consumerism and cultural assimilation {He Got Game, 2000; Street Gym, 2000). Rhode's practice has often been linked to graffiti, a "hip-pop" influence...

... the human toll of ways by his transcontinental back- tiquing the culture of reappropriation today’s civil wars and global crises. ground and global exhibition practice, and consumerism—concepts inextrica- Attia’s busts are testaments to the past the fact that he was born in Paris and bly linked...

... of capitalist rhetoric. Prestholdt, Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008). 7 Prestholdt, Domesticating the World, 95. East African photography portrait photography Swahili portrait photography modernity...

... and painting. In an interview, he describes his approach in the following way: Voguing is a dance expression with a phenomenology sensibility. It s a movement style that has a direct re- lationship to objects, consumerism, class and luxury. It also has the strongest relationship to drawing. The movement style...

... the product- that, for a rapt Western audience, have long since oriented phantasms that structure modern notions come to epitomize immigrant and youth-generated of belonging.3 In creating a continuum between violence.7 It was in the unyielding territory of these secular and devotional consumerism...

.... Undercutting the song s deeply felt tone, excerpts from Barthes s essay insert a meticulous explanation of how meaning is socially constructed through communication acts. First published in 1957 in Mythologies, a collec- tion of Barthes s essays that analyze how bourgeois consumerism becomes naturalized...

... typically directs his attention to average people. national flags or club crests that normally serve to He continued this project beyond Africa in France identify regional allegiances; instead, Pan-African and Brazil, painting immigrants from former ideals emerge through sport and consumerism. French...

..., inhabit: given such wordings, it is unsurpris- acknowledgment that contemporary individu- ing to learn that Breitz’s initial idea was to have ve als never stand outside the infantilizing sphere of of the reshot scenes slipped into ve consecutive consumerism, and as a creative exploitation...

... experienced by ing on the blasphemous by flouting its unstinting many residents led to them becoming known as devotion to worldly symbols of money, “bling” and yardies, a stigma that yardie-style sought to chal- consumerism. It is at once a throwback to colonial lenge. In fact, during the British...

... often been overlooked in the West as the it also serves as the artist’s gentle commentary on result of the “legacy of colonialist and primitivist consumerism and cultural imperialism.7 Indeed, thought.”8 The messages of power and politics that though Wosene’s art is not explicitly political, his...