The System of Objects
The System of Objects (French: Le Système des objets) is a 1968 book by the sociologist Jean Baudrillard. The book is based on the Baudrillard's doctoral thesis under the dissertation committee of Henri Lefebvre, Roland Barthes, and Pierre Bourdieu.[1]
| Author | Jean Baudrillard |
|---|---|
| Original title | Le Système des objets |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Subject | Consumerism |
Publication date | 1968 |
| Media type |
Content
In his early books, such as The System of Objects, For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign, and The Consumer Society, Baudrillard's main focus is upon consumerism, and how different objects are consumed in different ways. At this time Baudrillard's political outlook was loosely associated with Marxism (and situationism), but in these books he differed from Karl Marx in one significant way. For Baudrillard, as for the situationists, it was consumption rather than production that was the main driver of capitalist society.
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gollark: ```[13:45:16] Unhandled rejection TypeError: connection.query(...).on is not a function at /home/osmarks/Documents/Krist/node_modules/sequelize/lib/dialects/postgres/connection-manager.js:179:31 at Promise._execute (/home/osmarks/Documents/Krist/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/debuggability.js:303:9) at Promise._resolveFromExecutor (/home/osmarks/Documents/Krist/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:483:18) at new Promise (/home/osmarks/Documents/Krist/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:79:10) at /home/osmarks/Documents/Krist/node_modules/sequelize/lib/dialects/postgres/connection-manager.js:178:12 at PassThroughHandlerContext.finallyHandler (/home/osmarks/Documents/Krist/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/finally.js:57:23) at PassThroughHandlerContext.tryCatcher (/home/osmarks/Documents/Krist/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23) at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (/home/osmarks/Documents/Krist/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:512:31) at Promise._settlePromise (/home/osmarks/Documents/Krist/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:569:18) at Promise._settlePromise0 (/home/osmarks/Documents/Krist/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:614:10) at Promise._settlePromises (/home/osmarks/Documents/Krist/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:693:18) at Async._drainQueue (/home/osmarks/Documents/Krist/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:133:16) at Async._drainQueues (/home/osmarks/Documents/Krist/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:143:10) at Immediate.Async.drainQueues [as _onImmediate] (/home/osmarks/Documents/Krist/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:17:14) at runCallback (timers.js:763:18) at tryOnImmediate (timers.js:734:5)```repeatedly.
gollark: ```[13:44:18] (node:2784) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Please install 'pg' module manually at new ConnectionManager (/home/osmarks/Documents/Krist/node_modules/sequelize/lib/dialects/postgres/connection-manager.js:27:13) at new PostgresDialect (/home/osmarks/Documents/Krist/node_modules/sequelize/lib/dialects/postgres/index.js:12:28) at new Sequelize (/home/osmarks/Documents/Krist/node_modules/sequelize/lib/sequelize.js:233:18) at /home/osmarks/Documents/Krist/src/database.js:54:24 at new Promise (<anonymous>) at Function.Database.init (/home/osmarks/Documents/Krist/src/database.js:36:9) at /home/osmarks/Documents/Krist/main.js:47:11 at <anonymous> at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:182:7)[13:44:18] (node:2784) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 2)[13:44:18] (node:2784) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.```
gollark: ```[13:44:18] [Error] Uncaught error: [13:44:18] TypeError [ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE]: The "path" argument must be of type string at assertPath (path.js:39:11) at Object.basename (path.js:1300:5) at /home/osmarks/Documents/Krist/src/errors/errors.js:46:47 at Array.forEach (<anonymous>) at Object.<anonymous> (/home/osmarks/Documents/Krist/src/errors/errors.js:44:27) at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:654:30) at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:665:10) at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:566:32) at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:506:12) at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:498:3)```
References
- Chris Turner's introduction to The Intelligence of Evil, Berg (2005), p. 2.
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