The System of Objects

The System of Objects

by Jean Baudrillard

Translated by James Benedict

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    240 pages / March 2020 / 9781788738545

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

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.

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

  • 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