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Loading... The System of Objects (Radical Thinkers) (original 1968; edition 2006)by Jean Baudrillard
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Quando gli oggetti perdono il loro legame con la funzione e acquistano il ruolo di simboli. Quando, traformati in puro segno, perdono anche il legame con il significato. Puro consumo. En las llamadas sociedades de consumo los objetos ya no se producen, ante todo, para dar satisfacción a las necesidades primordiales del hombre, ni tampoco a esas necesidades secundarias, pero no menos reales, de la comodidad, el esparcimiento, el lujo estético. Estas tareas las puede cumplir con tal facilidad una moderna sociedad industrial superdesarrollada que su dinamismo se volvería superfluo si sólo tuviese como cometido la satisfacción de lo que el hombre real, natural y tradicionalmente, ha requerido para su existencia humana. no reviews | add a review
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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