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Objects (materal things): Material things are objects that exist in the physical world. They are made up of matter and have spatial and temporal properties. Material things are often contrasted with immaterial things, such as minds and spirits. See also Space, Space time, Matter, Individuation, Identification, Reference, Singular terms, General terms.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Jean Baudrillard on Objects (Material Things) - Dictionary of Arguments

Blask I 18
Objects/Things/Baudrillard: The fetishization of the objects dissolved their product character and created a self-referential character system.
Objects of consumption: objects of consumption are no longer material things, but transformed into signs. Consumption becomes idealistic practice.
>Picture
, >Mapping, >Image, >Symbols, >Icons, >Reality, >World/thinking.
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Blask I 75
Object/Baudrillard: triumph of the object over the subject: the subject disappears. Fractal fragmentation.
Subject/BaudrillardVsTradition: the subject has no qualities such as freedom, creativity, objectivity or knowledge.
>Subject, >Freedom, >Creativity, >Objectivity, >Knowledge.
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Blask I 76
Matter/Baudrillard: matter contains an evil mind.
>Matter.
Quantum Physics: Baudrillard suspects that all science experiments are secretly falsified by their objects.
>Quantum mechanics.
For the correct use of physical concepts see >Sokal/Bricmont.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Baud I
J. Baudrillard
Simulacra and Simulation (Body, in Theory: Histories) Ann Arbor 1994

Baud II
Jean Baudrillard
Symbolic Exchange and Death, London 1993
German Edition:
Der symbolische Tausch und der Tod Berlin 2009

Blask I
Falko Blask
Jean Baudrillard zur Einführung Hamburg 2013


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