For 4/4:
• Sut Jhally, "Image-Based Culture: Advertising and Popular Culture," The World & I, Vol. 5, No. 7, July 1990, pp. 506-519.
• Thorstein Veblen, excerpts regarding "Conspicuous Consumption," from The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions, 1953 [1899].
For 4/6
• Susan G. Davis, "Shopping," in Richard Maxwell (ed.), Culture Works: the Political Economy of Culture, University of Minnesota Press, 2001, pp. 163-196.
For 4/8:
• Colin Campbell, "Modern Autonomous Imaginative Hedonism," pp. 77-95, and "Conclusion," pp. 202-227, from The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism, Basil Blackwell, 1987.