System of Objects
A cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, 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...
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A cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, The System of Objectsis 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.
Translator's AcknowledgementsIntroduction1AThe Functional System, or Objective Discourse13IStructures of Interior Design15IIStructures of Atmosphere30IIIConclusion: Naturalness and Functionality63Addendum: The Domestic World and the Car65BThe Non-Functional System, or Subjective Discourse71IMarginal Objects: Antiques73IIA Marginal System: Collecting85CThe Metafunctional and Dysfunctional System: Gadgets and Robots107DThe Socio-Ideological System of Objects and Their Consumption135IModels and Series137IICredit156IIIAdvertising164Conclusion: Towards a Definition of 'Consumption'197
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