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,

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.
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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 Baudrillard.
Part of the acclaimed Radical Thinkers series.

Product details

ISBN
9781788738545
Published
2020-03-24
Publisher
Verso Books
Weight
195 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
129 mm
Thickness
15 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
240

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Biographical note

Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) began teaching sociology at the Université de Paris-X in 1966. He retired from academia in 1987 to write books and travel until his death in 2007.