The System of the objects
the system of the objects is the first major work of the sociologist French Jean Baudrillard. Published in 1968, this test notes the evolution which the Ameublement knows then interiors of the Middle-class to wonder about the new direction that find the Objet S of the Daily life within the framework of the postmodern company S . In this direction, it precedes the exit of later the consumer society two years.
According to the author, the pieces of furniture which ornament the hearth S French knew an evolution which made them lose their vocation of vehicles of the middle-class Morale : this one is not enchased any more in sawn timber and the heavy lines of the Table S and Armoire S of formerly. The materials evolve/move with the profit of the Verre and the colors with the profit of the Blanc, in particular in the Bathroom, a place intended for the cleanliness of the body.
These remarks make it possible Jean Baudrillard to initiate a reflection on the objects of the daily newspaper, it notes that those do not draw any more their direction in their practical function but in their materiality. Their industrial diffusion and their subjection to the changeable instructions of the mode do not prevent them any more from being constituted in a coherent system of Signe S from which can be worked out the concept of the Consommation. Thus, the interiors become basically “flexible” to make it possible to the host to produce a message bound for its hosts: its fitting becomes a requirement to which the search of prestige contributes.
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