The System of Objects

The System of Objects
ISBN-10
1844670538
ISBN-13
9781844670536
Category
Consumption (Economics)
Pages
246
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Verso
Author
Jean Baudrillard

Description

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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