Research Package

Consumerism/Capitalism and the Effects of:

Similar:
1. Consumerism
2. Capitalism
3. Free Enterprise
4. Entrepreneurship
5. Producerism
6. Endeavors
7. Consumer Bi-Law
8. Citizen Activism
9. Economics
10. Consumption
11. Globalization
12. Shopaholic
13. Culture Jamming
14. Productivism
15. Theory of the Leisure Class
16. Cycle of Consumption
17. Central Planning
18. Advertisement
19. Status Enhancement
20. Materialism

Opposite:
1. Marxism
2. Elitism
3. Libertarian thought
4. Individuation
5. Additive Cycle of Consumption
6. Private Enterprise
7. Anti-Consumerism
8. Sumptuary Laws
9. Idolatry
10. Pier Paolo Pasolini
11. Social Control
12. Media Theory
13. Neoliberal
14. Artificial Social Pressure
15. Totalitarian Society
16. Monopolistic
17. Sociocultural
18. Fascism
19. Corporate Policy
20. Small Business

Visual Metaphors:
1. Downward spiraling discarded cell phones
2. Crushed cars
3. Galaxy of electronics
4. Chinese art
5. Piles of junk
6. Field of plastic flowers
7. Moon of aluminum
8. Wax of melted cell phones
9. Mosaic of collaged memory cards
10. Collaged credit cards
11. Shards of broken cards
12. Manhole of advertisements
13. Giant consumerism character
14. Presidential form
15. Sequence of advertisements
16. Products as people
17. Junkyard trash
18. Eating products
19. Passing of products
20. Ship of CDs

Contrasting Visual Metaphors:
1. Tree of cellphones
2. Future cars
3. Universal electronic
4. Communist art
5. Junk into food
6. Field of actual flowers
7. Black moon
8. Melted products turned into fuel
9. Blooming collage of data
10. Broken credit cards
11. Ladder of iPods
12. Manhole into nothing
13. Person attacking consumer culture
14. President impeached
15. Sequence of past
16. People discarding products
17. Junkyard trash turned into a product
18. Throwing up products
19. Dead animals
20. Ship dumping products

6 Library sources:
1. Veblen, Thorstein. “The Theory of the Leisure Class”
2. Curtis, Adam. “The Century of the Self”
3. AdBusters magazine
4. Stiegler, Bernard. “The Disaffected Individual”
5. Raico, Ralph. “Liberalism, Marxism and The State”
6. Parkes, Henry Bamford. “Marxism: An Autopsy”

4 Internet sources:
1. Consumerism: Wikipedia –
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumerism
2. Media Blog: Sociology -
http://mediablog.typepad.com/media_blog/sociology/index.html
3. Overcoming Consumerism –
http://www.verdant.net/
4. Consumerism Commentary: A Person Finance Blog -
http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/


"Consumer's over consuming"

My proposal from this research is to create a distinct and unique depiction of the effect of consumerism and capitalism on individual people and people in general. I would like to go about showing this effect and connection by manipulating the aspects of Hieronymus Bosch's Tryptich "The Garden of Earthly Delights", mostly the third panel showing the afterlife in hell.

The aspects in this third panel I would like to show are the delights that are taken advantage of in the second panel (life) that are then taking advantage of the people in the afterlife.

I am not exactly sure how I am going to show this, but I am intending on making a character that is made up of some of these things but more so related to modern culture and consumerism of the 21st century. This character will attack and try to "consume" people of the world and inturn will dispose of these people in a different form - rather it be mainstream coporate identities, name brands, monopolies, or whatever.

This, in turn, will show the effects that consumerism and capitalism has on people and the world in a sort of reverse cycle where as the typical cycle goes from corporation > product > consumer > outcome and with this one going from outcome (character) > consumer > product/corporation.

I am directly affected by this type of synthesis of consumer culture and am interested in showing a different viewing of it from a perspective of the consumer that consumes because he has to, but knows there's a price to pay.