Baudrillard: Postmodern Consumer Society | feat. Michael Downs of The Dangerous Maybe (the first stream we did together!)

Pleeb and Mikey's first on-stream conversation was for Baudrillard's birthday, back in 2020.
Michael Downs is the author of The Dangerous Maybe blog: https://medium.com/@mdowns1611

Books referenced:
The System of Objects (1968)
The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures (1970)
For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign (1972)
The Mirror of Production (1973)
Symbolic Exchange and Death (1976)
Simulacra and Simulation (1981)

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