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The System of Objects (Radical Thinkers) by Baudrillard, Jean 1844670538 The
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- ISBN
- 9781844670536
- EAN
- 9781844670536
- Book Title
- System of Objects
- Book Series
- Radical Thinkers Ser.
- Original Language
- French
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Item Length
- 7.8 in
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Philosophy
- Topic
- Individual Philosophers, General, Criticism, Political
- Item Weight
- 9.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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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 "traditional" functional objects, subjecting home furnishing and interior design to a celebrated semiological analysis. His treatment of nonfunctional or "marginal" objects focuses on antiques and the psychology of collecting, while the metafunctional category extends to the useless, the aberrant and even the "schizofunctional." Finally, Baudrillard deals at length with the implications of credit and advertising for the commodification of everyday life. The System of Objects is a tour de force of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard, who emerges in retrospect as something of a lightning rod for all the live ideas of the day: Bataille's political economy of "expenditure" and Mauss's theory of the gift; Reisman's lonely crowd and the "technological society" of Jacques Ellul; the structuralism of Roland Barthes in The System of Fashion; Henri Lefebvre's work on the social construction of space; and last, but not least, Guy Debord's situationist critique of the spectacle.
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Verso Books
ISBN-10
1844670538
ISBN-13
9781844670536
eBay Product ID (ePID)
48435053
Product Key Features
Original Language
French
Book Title
System of Objects
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Individual Philosophers, General, Criticism, Political
Genre
Philosophy
Book Series
Radical Thinkers Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
9.4 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"A sharp-shooting Lone Ranger of the post-Marxist left."- New York Times "The most notorious intellectual celebrity to emerge from Paris since Roland Barthes and the most influential prophet of the media since Marshall McLuhan."- i-D magazine, "A sharp-shooting Lone Ranger of the post-Marxist left."-- New York Times "The most notorious intellectual celebrity to emerge from Paris since Roland Barthes and the most influential prophet of the media since Marshall McLuhan."-- i-D magazine
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2006-282322
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Dewey Decimal
306.4/6
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Bf778.B313 2005
Copyright Date
2005
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