System of Objects  -  Jean Baudrillard

KORTE INHOUD

The System of Objects is a tour de force—a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.

Pressing Freudian and Saussurean categories into the service of a basically Marxist perspective, The System of Objects offers a cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society. Baudrillard classifies the everyday objects of the “new technical order” as functional, nonfunctional and metafunctional. He contrasts “modern” and “tra...
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2020 Uitgever: Verso 224 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 1788738543 ISBN-13: 9781788738545