"I Shop therefore I Am" INTERMEZZO

“I cannot convince anyone by philosophical argument that the neoliberal regime of rights is unjust. But the objection to this regime of rights is quite simple: to accept it is to accept that we have no alternative except to live under a regime of endless capital accumulation and economic growth no matter what the social, ecological, or political consequences.”
In “A Brief history of Neo-Liberalism” by David Harvey, Oxford, 2005.

“Unfortunately, that culture, however spectacular, glamorous, and beguiling, perpetually plays with desires without ever conferring satisfactions beyond the limited identity of the shopping mall and the anxieties of status by way of good looks ( in the case of women ) or material possessions. ‘I Shop therefore I Am” and possessive together construct a world of pseudo-satisfaction that is superficially exciting but hollow at its core.”
In “A Brief history of Neo-Liberalism” by David Harvey, Oxford, 2005.

 

Consumerism is a social and economic order that encourages the purchase of goods and services in ever-greater amounts.