Mirror of Production

Author: (French) Baudrillard
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Can the concepts of labor and production still analyze contemporary capitalist society? Are these concepts an ideological illusion of capitalist society? In a consumer society, as class boundaries gradually blur, how can one discover the subject of critiquing contemporary capitalist society? To answer these questions, Baudrillard starts from the transformation of contemporary capitalist society—from organized capitalism to consumer society—and argues that theories that critique contemporary capitalist society solely from the perspective of production are merely another reflection of capitalist ideology. He believes it is necessary to break the mirror that embodies capitalist metaphysics and seek new critical strategies.