EAN: 9781788734837

FOR A CRITIQUE OF THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE ...

What if the problems of modern society don't come from production  but rather consumption and
the system of cultural signs? In this classic work from the defining intellectual of the
postmodern  Jean Baudrillard  For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign takes Marx's
critique of political economy and its analysis of the commodity form as the starting point for
an analysis of signs and their meaning in modern society. Influenced by Lefebvre's critique of
everyday life  Barthes's semiology  and Situationism  Baudrillard analyses how objects are
encoded within the system of signs and meanings that constitute contemporary media and consumer
societies. Combining semiological studies and sociology of the consumer society  For a Critique
of the Political Economy of the Sign contains Baudrillard's most extensive engagement with
Marxism and shows him at a critical juncture for the development of his thought.

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