Most are sketchy, fairly idiosyncratic maps of New York City, which is often depicted as a well-head of crime, corporate exploitation and commodity culture.

In the 80's, artists appropriated glamorous images and sparkling new merchandise, critiquing commodity culture while producing rather desirable commodities themselves.

Now, commodity culture is more often examined through its castoffs.

The Ottoman standard of dress and its commodity culture incorporated their passion for the tulip.

In his essays, he associated phantasmagoria with commodity culture and its experience of material and intellectual products.

Zeigler concludes that, "Regional theatre can best survive and grow by recognizing itself as another institutional resource of commodity culture."

"There's an added comedic value in that we know it is largely the result of American commodity culture."

On their surfaces, iconoclastic characters fluidly intermingle with adroit deconstructions of commodity culture.

The images of extreme beauty, which are ubiquitous in commodity culture, function as a cult of escape from the everyday.