Jean Baudrillard's 'The System of Objects'

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[TheoryPhilosophy]

Hole smokes 10k views! Happy for all the support :)

[inanedreamz]

taking on a project of putting Baudrillard’s work into the context of cognitive science. starting from the beginning, thank you for the guides

[doyle]

Starting from the beginning! Thanks so much, brother!

[Corsac]

Dude you are so incredible for doing all of this, i'm currently going through Baudrillard and your series is so helpful.
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[coralcomet]

Have started with your Baudrillard series and enjoying it immensely. Looking forward to all of these wonderful discussions

[SM-utvy]

This is really interesting and informative, thank you!! I’ve never been interested in philosophy before but Jean Baudrillard is really drawing me in!! Loved the video!

[SFXFF]

I am so grateful for these, I find reading, writing and understanding difficult. ButI love learning and sharing knowledge. even the readings of philosophical text is good, explaining it to a point is wonderful.

[SharperPenImageConsulting]

It occurs to me that JB’s mobius strip likely livnes up with McLuhan’s “4 laws of media.” Or medium or whatever it was. Retrieval, reversal, obsolescence, etc etc.

[goctexas]

Hyper normative is normal not everyone wants to prep a bull

[mattgilbert]

"Communicate without challenging"
So many miss this important perspective. They import a deeply internalized tendency towards moralizing (be it left, right, and anywhere within those socio-political co-ordinates), and thus sabotage any possibility of a more insightful and enlightened (a loaded term, but to be taken in the common, vernacular sense) reading and interpretation of Baudrillard.

I would want to challenge any reference to the "given" as a reference to a *myth*

[bekiratacan]

I wish there was a ppt slide show accompanying the video to keep us tuned

[prophetprosthesis]

Thank you soooo much for this. I'm a huge Baudrillard fan and am always trying to understand in a total sense. I've started with his later work and moved backwards. I definitely encourage your work and would interested in your thoughts connecting his work with more contemporary movements like object oriented ontology and afro-pessomism.

[TheoryPhilosophy]

Be sure to check out the whole Baudrillard playlist that covers (pretty much) each of his books!

[petrospk]

Τhank you for your work man, this is truly invaluable.

[Ascienceyguy]

This was extremely interesting I’ve recently been interested in Post-Modernism but i’m backlogged with lots of Marxist books. Still thank you so much for the opportunity to learn more about this!

[fernandafarjeat]

Helped a lot, thank you for this video!

[JAMAICADOCK]

The labour theory of value isn't really applied to consumption, but to production. Labour value is immaterial to the buyer, but to the producer it's critical in creating prices.

Whether the consumer sees symbolic, subjective value in a product is immaterial. The point is, the product was made with labour. Labour that dictates exchange value.

Consumption didn't really figure in Marx's theories, so I don't know where Baudrillard was coming from with his consumer driven critique of labour value.

From the capitalist point of view, subjective value is only a means to exploit labour, or to negate labour as to accrue profit. Labour costs critical to value of a product for the capitalist, if not the consumer.

Even if demand for a product is high, if it can't generate surplus labour, it'll be considered worthless by the capitalist and won't go into production. For instance, most people would like a portrait painted of themselves, however, labour costs would be too expensive to ever turn a profit, so no matter how valuable to the consumer, it's a worthless product to the producer.

[lolkiaha]

there's an evident influence by Luksemburg's writings on Braudrillard in the matter of the inversed precedence within the means of production

[phonesnelson]

thanks for these videos. Don't understand the negative comments. please keep up the good work

[Chipsipause]

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