Japanese Minimalism:
The most frequently offered interior design aesthetic used by
rootless career-hopping young people.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
The most frequently offered interior design aesthetic used by
rootless career-hopping young people.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
- Cafe Minimalism:
To espouse a philosophy of minimalism without actually putting
into practice any of its tenets
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - McJob:
A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, low-benefit
no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered... - Armanism:
After Georgio Armani: an obsession with mimicking the seamless
and (more importantly) *controlled
ethos of Italian couture. Lake Japanese Minimalism... - Conspicuous Minimalism:
A life-style tactic similar to Status Substitution
The nonownership of material goods flaunted as a token... - Homeowner Envy:
Feelings of jealousy generated in the young and the
disenfranchised when facing gruesome housing statistics
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Ethnomagnetism:
The tendency of young people to live in emotionally
demonstrative
more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: "You wouldn't... - Mental Ground Zero:
The location where one visualizes oneself during the dropping
of the atomic bomb
frequently, a shopping mall. -- Douglas Coupland,... - Me-ism:
A search by an individual, in the absence of training in the
traditional religious tenets
to formulate a personally tailored religion by himself... - Metaphasia:
An inability to perceive metaphor.
Douglas Coupland, Generation...
