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An edition of Le systeme des objects: la consommation des signes (1968)

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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.

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Verso
Language
English
Pages
205

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Technology and civilization, Values, Consumption (Economics), Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Values, Object (Philosophy), Philosophy, french, Semiotics, Philosophy, Psychology
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Cover of: System of Objects
System of Objects
2020, Verso Books
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Cover of: The System of Objects (Radical Thinkers)
The System of Objects (Radical Thinkers)
January 11, 2006, Verso
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Cover of: The system of objects
The system of objects
1996, Verso
in English
Cover of: Le système des objets
Le système des objets
1988, Gallimard
in French
Cover of: Le Système des objets
Le Système des objets
October 13, 1978, Gallimard
Mass Market Paperback in French
Cover of: LE SYSTEME DES OBJETS (LES ESSAIS)
LE SYSTEME DES OBJETS (LES ESSAIS)
1968-01-01, Gallimard
Cover of: Le systeme des objects
Le systeme des objects: la consommation des signes
1968, Denoel/Gonthier
in French
Cover of: Le Système des objets ...
Le Système des objets ...
1968, Gallimard
in French
Cover of: Le Système des objets ...
Le Système des objets ...
1968, Gallimard
in French

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Edition Notes

Includes index.

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London, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.4/6
Library of Congress
BF778 .B313 1996, BF778.B313 1996

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Pagination
viii, 205 p. ;
Number of pages
205

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL969610M
ISBN 10
1859849431, 185984068X
LCCN
96006183
OCLC/WorldCat
503084571, 34355316
LibraryThing
113835
Goodreads
1025898
4625081

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OL790285W

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