System of Objects

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-offering a cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society. Weaving Freudian and semiotic analysis with Marxism, Baudrillard seeks to analyse the immense proliferation of objects in modern society-from the clutter of a bourgeois home to the system of adverts and commercials all around us. In doing so, Baudrillard opened up new avenues for materialist analysis.

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Jean Baudrillard

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• Authors: Jean Baudrillard, Baudrillard Jean
• Assisted by: James Benedict (Translation), Benedict James (Translation)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.03.2020
• EAN: 9781788738545
• ISBN: 978-1-78873-854-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Radical Thinkers; Radical Thinkers Set 18
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Cultural Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Anthropology, PHILOSOPHY / Criticism, PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Semiotics / semiology, Consumerism, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism