Intersections #54: Materialism
Materialism
“Come on down to the store / You can buy some more, and more, and more, and more”
-Sonic Youth (“The Sprawl” (Daydream Nation 1988))
“Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.”
-John Ruskin
“Vampires are the perfect match for the crisis in capitalist consumerism, their excess of appetite a ghastly parody of the economic machine, while zombies, anonymous beings evacuated of self and volition, perfectly embody the figure of the economic serf, captive to workless degradation.”
-Marina Warner (from review of “Monsters, magic, and miracles”)
“Love people, use things. The opposite never works.”