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A review by casparb
The System of Objects by Jean Baudrillard
4.0
An exploration of Objects, and how we move about them. It's Baudrillard, so we are abstract and difficult at times - but worth the read! There seems to be some sort of debt to the memorable essay in Barthes' Mythologies on washing powders.
Particular highlights are the section on advertising towards the end (how it induces a double compulsion), and the final chapter upon consumption (what is consumption!?), punning all the while between (to) consummate and (to) consume.
Particular highlights are the section on advertising towards the end (how it induces a double compulsion), and the final chapter upon consumption (what is consumption!?), punning all the while between (to) consummate and (to) consume.