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For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign QUOTES

For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign QUOTES

1 " In symbolic exchange, of which the gift is our most proximate illustration, the object is not an object: it is inseparable from the concrete relation in which it is exchanged, the transferential pact that it seals between two persons: it is thus not independent as such. It has, properly speaking, neither use value nor (economic) exchange value. The object given has symbolic exchange value. "

― Jean Baudrillard , For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign