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.
Les mer
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.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781788738545
Publisert
2020-03-24
Utgiver
Vendor
Verso Books
Vekt
199 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

Forfatter
Oversetter

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.