A cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, The System of Objects is a tour de force - a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.
Author Biography
Jean Baudrillard was born in Reims in 1929 and now lives in Paris. He is the author of, among other works, America; Cool Memories; The Transparency of Evil; The Perfect Crime; Impossible Exchange; Fragments: Cool Memories III; and The Spirit of Terrorism, all from Verso
