"Consumerism" Blogs & Blog Posts

Kate Kaden has been making videos about living below your means for five years. She says 'blackout shopping' is one of the worst things you can do.

One of my favorite entries in The Meaning of Liff, an exceedingly middle-class British book that assigns place names to shared experiences that there aren't words for, is Louth. LOUTH (n.) The sort of man who wears loud check jackets, has a persona...

I love/hate looking at data showing how absolutely bonkers holiday spending in the United States has become, and the results from the National Retail Federation's 2023 annual Halloween survey don't disappoint. The survey revealed that a record number...

Last month I wrote about Wastiary: A Bestiary of Waste and I'm thrilled to share another terrific free book about the politics of (over)consumption, trash, waste, and consumer capitalism. It's called Discard Studies and was writte...

If you're at all interested in (critical analyses of) capitalism, consumerism, environmental issues, or similar topics, go download this terrific, free, open access book that was recently published by UCL (University College London) Press. Wasti...

RFK Jr's tall tale about Bill Gates' plans to control the populace with implanted chips sounds like something a middle-school student would write in 1985 after reading Neuromancer. Here's what he had to say in a recent interview (video below posted b...

I dislike condiment packets for all the obvious reasons–more packaging than product, packaging is immortal, etc–but somehow dozens if not hundreds of them have accumulated in my possession. Rather than interrogate this (or empty that over...