consumption
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You Need This
MEDIA: Unpacking the history of advertising and media manipulation, this film exposes capitalism’s relentless push toward overconsumption, inequality, and planetary destruction.
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Cultural sanctuaries amidst relentless urban development
CHINA: Ben Mullinkosson’s The Last Year of Darkness captures the ephemeral connections forged in Chengdu's queer nightclub scene.
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Are we being fooled by IKEA’s promise of a greener future?
CAPITALISM: Ikea, consuming a tree per second, acquires vast lands globally, endangering ecosystems and becoming the forest's most formidable foe.
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The earth doesn’t lie
COLONIALISM: Charting the French civil rights movement and the interwoven anti-colonial liberation struggles on the African continent through the life of activist and photographer, Bouba Touré.
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Flashy Norwegian-supported consumption in Africa
CORRUPTION: We haven't heard much about Luanda Leaks in Norway. Perhaps because it is embarrassing that Statoil paid NOK 420 million to a non-existent research centre owned by Angola's state oil company Sonangol, where Isabel dos Santos was the director until she was fired in November 2017?
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Four measures against the use-and-throw culture
CONSUMPTION: Keucheyan does not want authoritarian Marxism where the bureaucracy decides what its citizens need.
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5 things to consider when starting a documentary podcast
HOW TO: With podcasting a relatively new, and surging, terrain for filmmakers, we look at 5 things to consider when starting a documentary podcast.
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Luxury for the masses
CONSUMPTION: A humorous and poignant commentary on the mass consumption of our time.
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Intelligent care for a world in disorder
PHILOSOPHY: The central argument in The Neganthropocene is that the world is at risk of lapsing into a nihilistic state, as our failure to care for it becomes ever more manifest. But the challenge Stiegler takes upon himself is to show the way to an alternative anthropology.