{"id":28841,"date":"2010-11-04T14:01:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T19:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=28841"},"modified":"2011-11-23T20:07:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T01:07:44","slug":"slavoj-zizek-on-the-problems-of-ethical-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/11\/04\/slavoj-zizek-on-the-problems-of-ethical-consumption\/","title":{"rendered":"Slavoj Zizek on the Problems of Ethical Consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/11\/Capture12.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/11\/Capture12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"130\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/11\/Capture12.jpg 502w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/11\/Capture12-500x129.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLast week I posted about <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/10\/26\/awareness-branding-and-the-ethical-fix-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">some potential problems of &#8220;awareness branding,&#8221;<\/a> when products are marketed by promising to make a donation to breast cancer research, or wilderness restoration, or something of the sort. Greg P. then sent me a link to a video on <a href=\"http:\/\/comment.rsablogs.org.uk\/2010\/07\/29\/rsa-animate-tragedy-farce\/\">RSA Comment<\/a> where economist\/philosopher Slavoj Zizek argues against a reliance on private charity, and particularly ethical consumption, as a solution to global problems. He suggests that, say, buying fair-trade coffee at Starbucks is unlikely to relieve inequities that are directly related to global capitalism (of which Starbucks is a part and beneficiary), and may in fact reinforce them by making individuals in more privileged nations feel like they&#8217;ve done something to address the problem, thus relieving them of any obligation to look more deeply into the problem:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><object width=\"500\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hpAMbpQ8J7g&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I posted about some potential problems of &#8220;awareness branding,&#8221; when products are marketed by promising to make a donation to breast cancer research, or wilderness restoration, or something of the sort. Greg P. then sent me a link to a video on RSA Comment where economist\/philosopher Slavoj Zizek argues against a reliance on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12508,229,98,64,23703],"class_list":["post-28841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activismsocial-movements","tag-consumption","tag-capitalism","tag-globalization","tag-marketing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28841"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42328,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28841\/revisions\/42328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}