The System of Objects
Jean Baudrillard author James Benedict translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Verso Books
Published:24th Mar '20
Should be back in stock very soon
A tour de force of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard.
A tour de force of the materialist semiotics of the early BaudrillardThe 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.
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
ISBN: 9781788738545
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 16mm
Weight: 195g
240 pages