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James Benedict (trans) and
Jean Baudrillard
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Verso Books
Publication date
August 1, 1996
Pages
205
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781859849439
ISBN-10
1859849431
Dimensions
0.75 by 8.25 by 8.25 in.
Weight
1.50 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$65.00
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The System of Objects is a tour de forceâa 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 ânew technical orderâ as functional, nonfunctional and metafunctional. He contrasts âmodernâ and âtraditionalâ functional objects, subjecting home furnishing and interior design to a celebrated semiological analysis. His treatment of nonfunctional or âmarginalâ objects focuses on antiques and the psychology of collecting, while the metafunctional category extends to the useless, the aberrant and even the âschizofunctional.â 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: Batailleâs political economy of âexpenditureâ and Maussâs theory of the gift; Reismanâs lonely crowd and the âtechnological societyâ of Jacques Ellul; the structuralism of Roland Barthes in The System of Fashion; Henri Lefebvreâs work on the social construction of space; and last, but not least, Guy Debordâs situationist critique of the spectacle.
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 ânew technical orderâ as functional, nonfunctional and metafunctional. He contrasts âmodernâ and âtraditionalâ functional objects, subjecting home furnishing and interior design to a celebrated semiological analysis. His treatment of nonfunctional or âmarginalâ objects focuses on antiques and the psychology of collecting, while the metafunctional category extends to the useless, the aberrant and even the âschizofunctional.â 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: Batailleâs political economy of âexpenditureâ and Maussâs theory of the gift; Reismanâs lonely crowd and the âtechnological societyâ of Jacques Ellul; the structuralism of Roland Barthes in The System of Fashion; Henri Lefebvreâs work on the social construction of space; and last, but not least, Guy Debordâs situationist critique of the spectacle.
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Hardcover
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from Verso Books (August 1, 1996)
9781859849439 | details & prices | 205 pages | 8.25 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 1.50 lbs | List price $65.00
About: The System of Objects is a tour de forceâa theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.
About: The System of Objects is a tour de forceâa theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.
Paperback
from Verso Books (January 31, 2006)
9781844670536 | details & prices | 224 pages | 5.00 × 7.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.58 lbs | List price $17.95
from Verso Books (July 1, 1996)
9781859840689 | details & prices | 205 pages | 8.00 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $20.00
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