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The System of Objects

Jean Baudrillard author James Benedict translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Verso Books

Published:24th Mar '20

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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 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: 199g

240 pages