Le système des objets
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Author: Jean Baudrillard
Publishing House: Gallimard
Publication Date: 1968
Description : “The objects in particular do not exhaust their sense in their materiality and their practical function. Their diffusion according to the finalities of the production, the incoherent ventilation of the needs in the world of the objects, their subjection to the versatile instructions of the fashion: all that, apparent, does not have to hide us that the objects tend to constitute themselves in a coherent system of signs, from which only can elaborate a concept of the consumption. It is the logic and the strategy of this system of objects, where a deep complicity between the psychological investments and the social imperatives of prestige, between the projective mechanisms and the complex game of the models and the series, is tied up, which are analyzed here.” Jean Baudrillard.
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