1. Sign function and class logic -- 2. The ideological genesis of needs -- 3. Fetishism and ideology: the semiological reduction -- 4. Gesture and signature: the semiurgy of contemporary art -- 5. The art auction: sign exchange and sumptuary value -- 6. For a general theory -- 7. Beyond use value -- 8. Towards a critique of the political economy of the sign -- 9. Requiem for the media -- 10. Design and environment -- 11. Concerning the fulfillment of desire in exchange value
Analysis
Consumption (Economics)
Economics
Semiotics
Signs and symbols
Notes
Translation of: Pour une critique de l'economie politique du signe
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and name index
Notes
Translation of: Pour une critique de l'economie politique du signe
