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<p><b>A cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society,</b> The System of Objects<br> 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.</p> <p>Pressing Freudian and Saussurean categories into the service of a basically Marxist perspective, <b>The System of Objects</b> offers a cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society. Baudrillard classifies the everyday objects of the “new technical order” as functional, nonfunctional and metafunctional. He contrasts “modern” and<br> “traditional” functional objects, subjecting home furnishing and interior design to a celebrated semiological analysis. His treatment of nonfunctional or “marginal” objects focuses on antiques and the psychology of collecting, while the metafunctional category extends to the useless, the aberrant and even the “schizofunctional.” Finally,<br> Baudrillard deals at length with the implications of credit and advertising for the commodification of everyday life.</p> <p><b>The System of Objects</b><br> is a tour de force of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard, who emerges in retrospect a

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Author

Jean Baudrillard; James Benedict

Publisher

Verso Books

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9781859849439

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Psychology, Philosophy, Technology

Rating

3.99 / 5 (824 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14