Cover art for The System of Objects
Published
Verso, June 2020
ISBN
9781788738545
Format
Softcover, 240 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm × 1.5cm

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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-offering a cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society.

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