Jean Baudrillard: The System of Objects

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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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Intro: 0:00
Ideological Home & Interior Design: 2:53
Functionalism to the Symbolic: 5:00
Antiques & Collections: 7:49
Serial Motivation and a Lack: 10:38
New Language, Advertising and Credit: 16:02
A Message: 20:20

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@epochphilosophy 3 жыл бұрын

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@Assasinsweed 3 жыл бұрын

So much great content on this channel and I would like it to continue. So I'll pledge on patreon. Keep up the good work mate.

@epochphilosophy 3 жыл бұрын

@@Assasinsweed Thanks so much. Genuinely means a ton!

@N05Y573M 2 жыл бұрын

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.🗝️

@SPACEDOUT19 3 жыл бұрын

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

@epochphilosophy 3 жыл бұрын

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!

@joeyyc8515 Жыл бұрын

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

@caymuscairns6845 3 жыл бұрын

This channel makes me question everything, this video makes me want to start a commune.

@samarthkhandelwal3703 3 жыл бұрын

Ironic that I got 3 ads during this video

@wildernessisland2573 3 жыл бұрын

Were they all a part of the same series of commodified objects?

@moch.farisdzulfiqar6123 3 жыл бұрын

KZfaq algorithm give you a case study

@ageofbumfires5216 8 ай бұрын

From Wells Fargo no less lol

@CapnSnackbeard 8 ай бұрын

There are 3 kinds of KZfaq viewers in this world: people who pay for KZfaq Premium, those who use an ad blocker, and those who watch ads.

@emmanuelalozie5812 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@anonymoushuman8344 Жыл бұрын

😎 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!

@anonymoushuman8344 Жыл бұрын

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.

@Callamatteomatisch 11 ай бұрын

is that irony?

@simonthompson27 8 ай бұрын

⁠@@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.

@deleuzepilled Ай бұрын

funny

@anonymoushuman8344 Ай бұрын

It's irony, but it's also true. However, I also have the book because its content is interesting to me.

@anonymoushuman8344 Ай бұрын

There ought to be life-size wax figures of Baudrillard in the collections of the major wax museums.

@cobbanon5778 3 жыл бұрын

This is terrific. I would love to see your perspective on Fredric Jameson, otherwise keep up the good work!

@anonymoushuman8344 Жыл бұрын

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."

@gonthedriver 7 ай бұрын

Great summary. The script works as a thriller

@beaubolieu Жыл бұрын

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.

@canderousordo8271 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@MargaritaMagdalena 11 ай бұрын

He's always hard to read and hard to understand.

@CC3GROUNDZERO 5 ай бұрын

@@MargaritaMagdalena Compared to what? Heidegger?

@MargaritaMagdalena 5 ай бұрын

@@CC3GROUNDZERO Compared to most texts.

@Knaeben 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@gwinocour 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@lorettagreen6794 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@hellucination9905 3 жыл бұрын

What five books would you recommend for starting with Baudrillard? Preferably books which are the most relevant regarding today's cultural and societal conditions.

@deathrides4756 Жыл бұрын

@@hellucination9905 the system of objects, the consumer society, america (second or third), fatal strategies, simulation and simulacra

@NafsikaLiz 3 ай бұрын

@@deathrides4756 and the transparency of evil

@scowlistic 2 жыл бұрын

Not for the faint of heart, at least not the full video in one sitting. Excellent work man, thank you.

@0x400Bogdan 2 жыл бұрын

I like that your videos are fast-paced. I don’t need to increase the speed in KZfaq. Thank you for keeping this in mind.

@sjorskattenbelt4384 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@LogicGated 2 жыл бұрын

Man the music really adds to the video experience, great work!

@theory_underground 3 жыл бұрын

Stoked to watch this!

@MattStranberg 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome work as always!

@Yellow.1844 3 жыл бұрын

A man gotta love Baudrillard

@N33TF33T 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing video as always.

@ianwenzel5095 10 ай бұрын

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.

@edubmf 3 жыл бұрын

Very interesting, yet again. Many thanks.

@Vak_g Жыл бұрын

Excellent video about a great book! Thank you so much!

@rafeeqwarfield9690 Жыл бұрын

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

@darillus1 11 ай бұрын

love your videos, really well made

@michelleford4002 3 жыл бұрын

Great, thought provoking video Ian. Naturally I found this one particularly interesting.

@papichulo4171 3 жыл бұрын

Mfer really commented this a whole day before the video even came out

@epochphilosophy 3 жыл бұрын

@@papichulo4171 Patreon/KZfaq Member early access my friend.

@papichulo4171 3 жыл бұрын

@@epochphilosophy Oh, ok makes sense.

@punjab1ify 3 жыл бұрын

@@papichulo4171 lol

@grekerbeer948 3 жыл бұрын

@@epochphilosophy how capitalistic :D

@jcrass2361 3 жыл бұрын

So good. I need to read Baudrillard now.

@dancerTiki 3 жыл бұрын

What a great video, thank you!

@iamcleverdic 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your effort on our behalf.

@BRUNOMISAD 3 жыл бұрын

Great video man!

@eebsvaldizon14 3 жыл бұрын

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. ❤️😁

@epochphilosophy 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much. This is just the beginning of Baudrillard in this channel!

@racheldenis6205 2 жыл бұрын

This was incredible

@maggiemenghanchen8810 Жыл бұрын

would love one video on symbolic exchange and death!! enjoyed this one a lot thank you

@JuanPerez-od4pq 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much i hope you make more videos like this. 👌💯💯💯

@hellucination9905 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent video like the rest of your videos!

@sethjohnson4409 3 жыл бұрын

No wonder Americans had the worst time locking down.. awesome work on this one!

@michaelcallaghan8358 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video

@georgidetelinov4357 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome. Thank you

@emilmaze 3 жыл бұрын

where'd you find that picture of Baudrillard in the thumbnail. I've never seen that before

@gunnarinn90 3 жыл бұрын

So good!

@joaoandre6129 3 жыл бұрын

Beautifully made, as always. Would love to see a video on Hegel, someday.

@epochphilosophy 3 жыл бұрын

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

@d.r.parsons 3 жыл бұрын

@@epochphilosophy We demand a 48-hour-long video where you analyze the entirety of the Phenomenology of Spirit, section by section.

@VictorLopez-qm5kz 3 жыл бұрын

@@d.r.parsons se don't want homie to die lmao

@socialswine3656 2 жыл бұрын

@@d.r.parsons Sadler 2

@mihordeadana2368 Жыл бұрын

Love this channel

@epochphilosophy Жыл бұрын

Love u

@rafeeqwarfield9690 Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@darkmatter345 Жыл бұрын

Baudrillard and Heidegger are very useful reads for designers

@eternalkino34 3 жыл бұрын

thank you

@satwikanmol 2 жыл бұрын

Please add simulica and simulation. Very good video.

@Cooliofamily 7 ай бұрын

I need more content !!

@Arashinx 3 жыл бұрын

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!

@hellucination9905 3 жыл бұрын

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!

@kirasussane1556 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@deathrides4756 Жыл бұрын

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.

@MargaritaMagdalena 5 ай бұрын

I recommend the book "The Lonely Crowd" by David Riesman.

@reubennb2859 2 жыл бұрын

These videos are art

@abczyx159 3 жыл бұрын

great video

@marcopivetta7796 4 ай бұрын

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

@zameking 3 жыл бұрын

awesome!!

@lucifervibes 3 жыл бұрын

beautiful!

@megaalan12 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@epochphilosophy 3 жыл бұрын

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!

@JS-dt1tn 3 жыл бұрын

Bravo!

@Daniel-nb2sb Ай бұрын

Does anyone happen to know what is the song playing in the background?

@pdd3798 Жыл бұрын

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.

@nicholaswright3081 2 жыл бұрын

What do you mean by "dense" when you refer to his book?

@prabalrai9801 8 ай бұрын

I'm high rn, that bg making it more powerful and it's so immersive XD.

@vinzent998 3 жыл бұрын

Nice.

@ashdkajbusvwjsizh5187 3 жыл бұрын

Can we change German Ideology with Baudrillard :Dd Anyway thanks epoch missing your streams lately see you on next one.

@brandonmatson7618 8 ай бұрын

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.

@louisonduchatteau1513 3 жыл бұрын

another comment for the algorithm.

@williamswilliams5617 Жыл бұрын

Is it not complete?

@lunar-ix9vu 8 ай бұрын

Why is thoughtful writing being read and talked about without a breath?

@MargaritaMagdalena 8 ай бұрын

I tried reading the book and broke my brain.

@ramiismael7502 3 жыл бұрын

Is there any relationship between KZfaqr authenticity ?

@stuarthicks2696 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@mattvl73 Жыл бұрын

"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?

@mihordeadana2368 Жыл бұрын

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

@Nina-wf9gt 3 жыл бұрын

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

@jacobloving6765 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@smooa1889 3 жыл бұрын

Another masterpiece video loved it ᵇᵘᵗ ᶦ ᶜᵒᵘˡᵈ ʰᵉᵃʳ ᵃ ᵍᵘᵐ ˢᵐᵃᶜᵏʸ ᵐᵒᵘᵗʰ ᶜˡᶦᶜᵏ ˢᵒᵘⁿᵈ ᵃˡˢᵒ ˢᶜʰᵉᵐᵉ ᶦˢ ᵖʳᵒⁿᵒᵘⁿᶜᵉᵈ ˢᵏᵉᵉᵐ

@epochphilosophy 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@smooa1889 3 жыл бұрын

comment for the algorithm

@dazpatreg Жыл бұрын

I do a shot for every excape in each video.

@MargaritaMagdalena 11 ай бұрын

Who is the man in the thumbnail?

@badmojjo 3 жыл бұрын

Funny, this video is interrupted by ads. In my case coffee machines 😂

@theamici 3 жыл бұрын

AdBlocker ftw!

@crazyape968 2 жыл бұрын

9:00 😁

@ridetube66 Жыл бұрын

"ek-scape" do you mean es-cape?

@sr-kt9ml Жыл бұрын

Did you argue for why credit was essential for this to happen? Seems as though it could have happened without credit

@NoPrivateProperty Жыл бұрын

all philosophy boils down to three simple words.......Eat The Rich

@murrik 4 ай бұрын

Control our environment and atmosphere, having everything, non scarcity control. Symbols,

@dmr11235 6 ай бұрын

Dude this is so fucking weird, like 4 of the random greyed out background videos are of the fairly small neighborhood I live in

@samuelboucher1454 3 жыл бұрын

Baudrillard ASMR

@smugli3012 3 жыл бұрын

kinda sounds like ted kaczynski 😳

@christopherross8358 3 жыл бұрын

OMG! I'm throwing away my Che T-shirt and only wearing plain grey with no markings.

@theamici 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds very functionalist to me. Are you sure you're not committing to consuming the sign of the plain now? :P

@shanesargeson532 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@christopherross8358 2 жыл бұрын

@@theamici Camouflage

@christopherross8358 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@gardnjw 3 ай бұрын

Loved the presentation but not that monotonous soundtrack...

@Dreddwinner Жыл бұрын

😎

@TheCbot88 Ай бұрын

For the record; the serpent crawls on it's belly because there it can hide from your gaze. 👀

@jamesgraham4242 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@karachaffee3343 Жыл бұрын

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.

@jordanaugust4329 Жыл бұрын

Semiotics, and much of Baudrillard’s work, is more so built from de Sasseur and structural linguistics.

@audrey2433 3 жыл бұрын

the only cool French philosopher (who was alive at the time) that didn't sign the petition

@befuddledb 3 жыл бұрын

What petition?

@audrey2433 3 жыл бұрын

@@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

@befuddledb 3 жыл бұрын

@@audrey2433 Oh, I heard about it. Thanks!! The "cool" is for him not signing?

@m4chfive 3 жыл бұрын

great video, makes me want to walk into the fucking woods. this goddamn frenchman is far far under my skin

@elies8084 2 жыл бұрын

of course i get nintendo ads

@_XY_ 2 жыл бұрын

The matrix has you

@ericulric223 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@vevenaneathna Жыл бұрын

lol people obsessing over 3d printers for no reason. this hit

@lunar.n.6133 Жыл бұрын

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!!!”