The System of Objects

Author: Jean Baudrillard and James Benedict Series: Radical Thinkers Set 18

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A tour de force of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard.

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A tour de force of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard.

A tour de force of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard

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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—offering a cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society.

Critic 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
Modest, independent, and devastatingly humorous, Jean's work transmitted the lost urbanity of the mid-20th century while speaking of and into the future. -- Chris Kraus

About the Author

Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) began teaching sociology at the Université de Paris-X in 1966. He retired from academia in 1987 to write books and travel until his death in 2007.