The System of Objects (Radical Thinkers)

The System of Objects (Radical Thinkers)

by JeanBaudrillard (Author)

Synopsis

A cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, 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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 21 Oct 2005

ISBN 10: 1844670538
ISBN 13: 9781844670536

Media 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
Author Bio
Jean Baudrillard was born in Reims in 1929 and now lives in Paris. He is the author of, among other works, America; Cool Memories; The Transparency of Evil; The Perfect Crime; Impossible Exchange; Fragments: Cool Memories III; and The Spirit of Terrorism, all from Verso