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A review by bookishlysophie
The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures by Jean Baudrillard
4.0
This is not a read for those who are either not pursuing an academic degree concerning consumer societies or those who have enough of a passion for learning that they can commit to reading through some complex ideas and a very intricate text.
The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures produces some excellent ideas surrounding everything from sex, the body, violence and gender to the production of signs, key in discussing this topic on an academic level. It manages to avoid the trap of having its ideas stuck in time, despite being written long ago this book and its ideas are still relevant and therefore it is a fantastic read if you need inspiration for an essay.
That being said parts of the book do verge on being archaic, in this case they act as a means of reference to which you would need to apply your own examples.
This is not a simple book to read, I highly recommend reading the introductory chapter in order to grasp the concepts before delving into the actual book. That being said I have come out of reading this book with a much broader knowledge of the consumer society than that I had before, therefore the book was well worth the read.
The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures produces some excellent ideas surrounding everything from sex, the body, violence and gender to the production of signs, key in discussing this topic on an academic level. It manages to avoid the trap of having its ideas stuck in time, despite being written long ago this book and its ideas are still relevant and therefore it is a fantastic read if you need inspiration for an essay.
That being said parts of the book do verge on being archaic, in this case they act as a means of reference to which you would need to apply your own examples.
This is not a simple book to read, I highly recommend reading the introductory chapter in order to grasp the concepts before delving into the actual book. That being said I have come out of reading this book with a much broader knowledge of the consumer society than that I had before, therefore the book was well worth the read.