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Sep 2019
47m 20s

Jean Baudrillard's "The System of Object...

DAVID GUIGNION
About this episode

In this episode I present the core ideas from Jean Baudrillard's first book, The System of Objects.

Clearly influenced by his supervisor, Henri Lefebvre, Baudrillard explores what mass consumption of objects says about us and our society. 

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