Jean Baudrillard: The System of Objects
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- čas přidán 15. 05. 2024
- Baudrillard stands as one of the most influential and relevant thinkers of the later 20th century. Best known for his work Simulacra and Simulation, Baudrillard's intellectual career started with The System of Objects. A book that sought to analyze the newly emerging world of sign-value, and the material rupture of early serial commodities. Baudrillard sought to bring a structural, material analysis with newer fields such as semiotics and social psychoanalysis as to give a new lens to 20th-century capitalism. As The System of Objects developed from his Ph.D. thesis, it serves as a relatively quiet, yet important piece of philosophy that helped shape late 20th-century thought.
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This is great material 👏👏
It's amazing how it almost describes what a phylosophy of NFT's could sounds like. The dialectic of NFT's.🗝️
This channel makes me question everything, this video makes me want to start a commune.
This was my entry point into philosophy, just bought it summer 2019, didnt understand everything (cause english is also not my native language), but im glad i bought it and read it
It's a pretty difficult and dense read to say the least. But, very significant at examining production and consumption and it's relative change.
We try to make difficult stuff easy to understand over here!
It was one of my entries into Philosophy as well, albeit 13 years ago. It’s good to also study Baudrillard’s source material: an individual named Friedrich Nietzsche
Ironic that I got 3 ads during this video
Were they all a part of the same series of commodified objects?
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I’m definitely adding The System of Objects to my reading list. Moving from market himanism
To self-realization is something I have definitely noticed as of late with the rise of social media.
😎 You've in fact added The System of Objects to your reading list, but you're also aware of this as an example of serial motivation, correct? Ha!
This is terrific. I would love to see your perspective on Fredric Jameson, otherwise keep up the good work!
I like that your videos are fast-paced. I don’t need to increase the speed in CZcams. Thank you for keeping this in mind.
Not for the faint of heart, at least not the full video in one sitting. Excellent work man, thank you.
Watched the intro, this is going to be good. You give a good summary of what is about to come, accompanied by a nice voice recorded with a decent mic. This is going to be a great help for my essay. Especially since you use citations and interpreted them afterwards.
Your content is outstanding. Every video is well-presented and non-condescending. I always finish either feeling like I have learned something, or at least sparked ideas.
Man the music really adds to the video experience, great work!
Beautiful🎉 what a way to summarize a very Interesting text. Everything is an important idea and your voice (cadence, delivering,range) makes it so pleasant to hear.
Maybe your best video yet. Baudrillard is sometimes hard to read and always hard to understand, yet you present it in a very understandable manner.
He's always hard to read and hard to understand.
@@MargaritaMagdalena Compared to what? Heidegger?
@@CC3GROUNDZERO Compared to most texts.
I've owned a copy of The System of Objects for many years, as the structuralism/postructuralism section of my philosophy collection would be incomplete without it.
is that irony?
@@Callamatteomatisch “Today our comments section would feel incomplete without being haunted by irony. Similarly this self-reflexive comment is also needed for the pantomime of commentary” Bon Jovrillard.
funny
It's irony, but it's also true. However, I also have the book because its content is interesting to me.
There ought to be life-size wax figures of Baudrillard in the collections of the major wax museums.
Thank you for your effort on our behalf.
Stoked to watch this!
There should be a wax figure of Baudrillard amongst the other celebrity simulacra at Madame Tussauds wax museum. People would take "selfies" with it. This would become a "thing."
Awesome work as always!
Excellent video about a great book! Thank you so much!
So good. I need to read Baudrillard now.
Very interesting, yet again. Many thanks.
This is a great video! Thank you. I couldn’t find this phrase “sorcerer(s) of atmosphere” 5:03 in the text, but it’s a great phrase and I wish he had! He does mention “engineer of atmosphere” in a context as you use it here , and “neo-sorcerers of consumption” in the context of advertising gurus.
Amazing video as always.
love your videos, really well made
Great summary. The script works as a thriller
Oh I hope you cover all 40 books of Baudrillard’s. I would eagerly watch each and every one. I’ve read most of them.
That’s an achievement I admire! Any recommendation on selection and order? Just finished ‘for a critique of the political economy of the sign’ and decided I was going to make 2021 the year of Baudrillard. I can’t help but think he understood something no one else did because based on what I glean from secondary sources his theories explain some of the more absurd aspects of contemporary culture. Just not sure whether I should go back and read system of objects or if I was to move forward what I should read next. I would like to understand how his thought developed and his foundational ideas.
What five books would you recommend for starting with Baudrillard? Preferably books which are the most relevant regarding today's cultural and societal conditions.
@@hellucination9905 the system of objects, the consumer society, america (second or third), fatal strategies, simulation and simulacra
@@deathrides4756 and the transparency of evil
What a great video, thank you!
Happy I found your channel man. Learning a lot and in process of also seeing where I stand on things. Keep up the good work, happy to support the cause
Thank you so much i hope you make more videos like this.
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A man gotta love Baudrillard
would love one video on symbolic exchange and death!! enjoyed this one a lot thank you
Great video man!
Great, thought provoking video Ian. Naturally I found this one particularly interesting.
Mfer really commented this a whole day before the video even came out
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@@epochphilosophy Oh, ok makes sense.
@@papichulo4171 lol
@@epochphilosophy how capitalistic :D
This was incredible
First of all I want to say that all of your videos are well articulated. I love your work and what you do. But this video was one of your best because I love his philosophy. I absolutely appreciate this video haha. I was also wondering when you were going to do a video about this philosopher. And like I said please keep doing more philosophy videos about postmodernism. Thank you very much. ❤️😁
Thanks so much. This is just the beginning of Baudrillard in this channel!
Excellent video like the rest of your videos!
Awesome. Thank you
I need more content !!
So good!
Excellent video
Love this channel
Love u
Bought this book some months ago and, to be honest, still haven't managed to understand even the first chapter. First philosophy/sociology book I've ever decided to read. I now feel as confused about it as I feel interested in it hahaha. Your video really gave me support so I can go on with my reading, thanks!
Don't give up, I felt the same ten years ago starting Adorno's "Dialectic of Enlightenment", my first philosophy book. It will get better, you will understand more and more of these texts, just try to read them as good as you can and the rest will follow!
The best thing to do is to bought books that are an introduction to social philosophy and political philosophy.
That way you can situate the author within certain schools of thought and start to understand how they approach certain concepts .
Sometimes companions to philosophy books also help.
Keep reading. With luck, the ending of parts will give context to the beginning or the areas in which you don't fully understand. And after you can contemplate the whole.
I recommend the book "The Lonely Crowd" by David Riesman.
where'd you find that picture of Baudrillard in the thumbnail. I've never seen that before
Beautifully made, as always. Would love to see a video on Hegel, someday.
Truly depends on some stuff, but I would love to see one just as much as you. I'll will it into existence soon enough. But, if we do one on one of Hegel's work, it's going to be longggggg and I won't skimp on detail. It'll be the best damn Hegel vid on this site.
Because of those standards and the sheer pain it would put me through, Imma have to will myself to do it lol
@@epochphilosophy We demand a 48-hour-long video where you analyze the entirety of the Phenomenology of Spirit, section by section.
@@d.r.parsons se don't want homie to die lmao
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Thanks!
Please add simulica and simulation. Very good video.
No wonder Americans had the worst time locking down.. awesome work on this one!
Baudrillard and Heidegger are very useful reads for designers
beautiful!
thank you
You're talkin to Vaush right now and I saw you have a video Baudy boi! Gonna check this out later. He's so confusing, so I want to understand him better.
Very happy to see you here. Yeah dude Baudrillard is so dense. Hopefully I can make his first book here easy to understand.
The System of Objects is his beginning!
These videos are art
awesome!!
great video
I'm high rn, that bg making it more powerful and it's so immersive XD.
Bravo!
Can we change German Ideology with Baudrillard :Dd Anyway thanks epoch missing your streams lately see you on next one.
Oh yeah I glee when I find someone talking about Baudrillard that isn't misinterpreting the simulation theory. This is a much more well presented pan over Baudrillard central thesis overall
And would this be a critique on man, or simply an acknowledgement of its ability to establish meaning in whatever epoch he exists? I am interested in reading more to see what preferable outcomes of this new humanism.
Does anyone happen to know what is the song playing in the background?
I tried reading the book and broke my brain.
What do you mean by "dense" when you refer to his book?
I feel like the ideas in this book are behind this barrier of complexity that could be simplified well enough for more average peopl engage with it's ideas. The way it's written doesn't fit the actual difficulty of the concepts.
Nice.
Is it not complete?
Why is thoughtful writing being read and talked about without a breath?
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Haha, thanks. This is a brand new mic and I use an auto-adjusting denoiser on Audition with older settings and it looks like it missed those smaller noises in the beginning. Missed it in editing some how, but I hear it too.
Luckily it goes away quickly lol.
Who is the man in the thumbnail?
"ek-scape" do you mean es-cape?
That was great. Never a big fan of the Simulacrum thing or the movie the Matrix or Boud’s dismissal of it. They all bore me. This, however, was engaging.
Funny, this video is interrupted by ads. In my case coffee machines 😂
AdBlocker ftw!
I like your video, but I cant shake off the impression that System of Objects is just a more superficial version of Society of the Spectacle
I it’s just an iteration of the same thoughts. I’m pretty sure there’s a paragraph in society of the spectacle about how we just repeat same things over and over again just through a different voice or something like that.
I do a shot for every excape in each video.
9:00 😁
comment for the algorithm
"signifying transcendence". that phrase gives me goosebumps but i can't put my finger on why. "something that was once only associated only with kings and feudal lords" is now available to every yuppie karen whether male or female. thus the "walking pole". i am a relatively uneducated prole peasant. could you help me out? is baudrillard suggesting that this system or tendency is healthy and normal or is he talking about pathology? Is the system of objects a natural and beneficial evolution of mankind or is he saying something has gone horribly wrong?
i think he s implying the latter. that s just what i ve gathered from the video, i haven t read the book just yet
OMG! I'm throwing away my Che T-shirt and only wearing plain grey with no markings.
Sounds very functionalist to me. Are you sure you're not committing to consuming the sign of the plain now? :P
I gave up on Che when I found K Mart selling t-shirts with his image on them. Right next to the Ramones. All their power is gone. Rebellion used against the ones who need it absorbed into the system.
@@theamici Camouflage
@@shanesargeson532 You know, you bring up an interesting point. On one hand, Che being popularized brought more awareness to his history for like 1% of those who read books on there own - however the popularization also diluted the influence with every product made.
Did you argue for why credit was essential for this to happen? Seems as though it could have happened without credit
Loved the presentation but not that monotonous soundtrack...
Baudrillard ASMR
Control our environment and atmosphere, having everything, non scarcity control. Symbols,
the only cool French philosopher (who was alive at the time) that didn't sign the petition
What petition?
@@befuddledb a petition against age of consent laws in france pretty much all the big names in french philosophy at the time signed it including Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze etc but not Baudrillard
@@audrey2433 Oh, I heard about it. Thanks!! The "cool" is for him not signing?
Dude this is so fucking weird, like 4 of the random greyed out background videos are of the fairly small neighborhood I live in
kinda sounds like ted kaczynski 😳
For the record; the serpent crawls on it's belly because there it can hide from your gaze. 👀
Semiotics, and much of Baudrillard’s work, is more so built from de Sasseur and structural linguistics.
The collapse of credit will be a shock to the system. I have been buying $2500 to $4000 used cars with 100,000 miles on them for decades--and run them until they have over 200,000 miles. I don't have $40,000 for a new car and do not intend to buy on credit, ever.
all philosophy boils down to three simple words.......Eat The Rich
I fish...on the outside. I'm mostly at home on a river. I catch the fish, they don't catch me. I do not live on a lawless planet. I work. I am not a princess.
😎
of course i get nintendo ads
great video, makes me want to walk into the fucking woods. this goddamn frenchman is far far under my skin
lol people obsessing over 3d printers for no reason. this hit
The productive process of commodities is awful, and the downside - and it’s being resolved by deep-pocket capital itself in the form of automatons / robots / machines. Modern man: “NOOO now how will I buy iCommodity! Destroy the machines! Give us back our jobs!!” Company: “OK” Modern Man: “NOOOO!!!! Work is alienating!!!”
Yeah, no. Videos like this remind me to go read the book myself. Everyone wants condensed quick summaries to save themselves the trouble of thinking it out.
The matrix has you
Good video but a fridge is a easy way of describing it in a social context
I don't think we like cars because of some perception of homogenous traditionalism.
Car go fast.
Car full of complicated parts
Car can be upgraded
Car can be restored and sold
Car can take you from A to B
See why we like cars now ?