Feb 27, 2006 4:27 PM

In case you don't believe that consumerism is politically dominant in our society

Curated shopping.

And you know, I'm not making fun of this; as a man

of our times, I think I could actually *go for* some

'curated shopping.'

http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=1803

Curate that shopping, Mr Mall Manager, or Culture Critic, or whatever-you-are

I'll go further; as a former design professor, I'm pretty

sure I could CURATE SOME SHOPPING MYSELF.

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