Arenas of Influence – Part 2: You Are What You Buy
·1135 words·6 mins
Examining how the attention merchant model has colonized private spaces, turning consumers into products sold to advertisers and shaping personal identity through consumption.
Consumerism
Bauhaus, Consumerism, and the Economics of Waste - Part 2: Durability vs Growth: Why Capitalism Could Not Tolerate Bauhaus
·622 words·3 mins
How growth-dependent capitalism systematically undermined durability and introduced planned obsolescence as an economic necessity.
Bauhaus, Consumerism, and the Economics of Waste
·293 words·2 mins
A historical and economic exploration of how Bauhaus challenged growth-driven capitalism and why its principles are essential for sustainable design today.
The Specter of Hegemony - Part 4: Globalization as Cognitive Penetration
·556 words·3 mins
The fourth installment argues that globalization is fundamentally the control of minds, replacing military occupation with invisible infrastructure that penetrates psychological borders and maintains Western cognitive dominance.
The 1978 Dialectic: Anxiety, Aspiration, and the Making of a Modern Mindset
·231 words·2 mins
Exploring how 1978 advertisements and articles in Al-Mukhtar magazine reflected the tension between consumer aspiration and global anxiety.
