Sylvere Lotringer. Symbolic Value
| Title: | Sylvere Lotringer. Symbolic Value | ||
| Date: | 06/09/2011 | Length: | 0:48:29 |
| Sylvère Lotringer, literary critic and cultural theorist talking about Jean Baudrillard's "The System of Objects," Karl Marx, and the transition from Fordism to post-Fordism. In this lecture Sylvère Lotringer discusses the concepts of the potlatch, use value, exchange value and alienation in relationship to May 68, the Situationist International, the production of value, consumerism, focusing on status symbols and symbolic value. European Graduate School EGS | |||