Book:
Baudrillard, J. and Benedict, J. (1996) The system of objects: Jean Baudrillard. London: Verso Books.
Authenticity
Page 80
"The nostalgia for origins and the obsession with authenticity. It seems to me that both arise from from mythical evocation of birth which the antique object constitutes in its temporal closure - being born implying, after all, that one has had a father and a mother".
"Origins means regression to the mother; the older the object, the closer it brings us to an earlier age, to 'divinity', to nature, to primitive knowledge, and so forth".
"The fascination of handicraft derives from an object's having passed through the hands of someone the marks of whose labour are still inscribed thereupon: we are fascinated by what has been created, and is therefore unique, because the moment of creation cannot be reproduced".
A Marginal System: Collecting
Page 91
"Littre's dictionary defines 'objet' in one of its meanings as 'anything which is the cause or subject of a passion; figuraively - and par excellence - the loved object'."
The Object Abstracted from Its Function
Page 91
"If I use an refrigerator to refrigerate, it is a practical mediation: it is not an object but a refrigerator. And in that sense I do
Advertising
Page 178
"It contributes nothing to production or to the direct practical application of things, yet it plays an integral part in the system of objects, not merely because it relates to consumption but also because it itself becomes an object to be consumed."
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