In his consideration of the language of the fashion magazine--the structural analysis of descriptions of women's clothing by writers about fashion--Barthes gives us a brief history of semiology. At the same time, he identifies economics as the underlying reason for the luxuriant prose of the fashion magazine: "Calculating, industrial society is obliged to form consumers who don...(展开全部)

In his consideration of the language of the fashion magazine--the structural analysis of descriptions of women's clothing by writers about fashion--Barthes gives us a brief history of semiology. At the same time, he identifies economics as the underlying reason for the luxuriant prose of the fashion magazine: "Calculating, industrial society is obliged to form consumers who don...(展开全部)

David Foster Wallace, who is twenty-four years old, is a 1985 graduate of Amherst College. He is currently studying for a MFA at the university of Arizona in Tucson.(物是人非啊……)

'A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian and as serious as it is possible to be without accidentally writing a religious text. He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till now as "modern fiction". He's so modern he's in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us. Goddamn him' Zadie Smith ...(展开全部)

A cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society, The System of Objects is a tour de force—a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.

【作者简介】 劳拉·贝茨（Laura Bates），英国女性主义作家、活动家，《星期日泰晤士报》畅销书作家，“日常性别歧视项目”创始人，该项目收集了超过20万份关于性别不平等的证词。她的代表作有《厌女国度》《隐秘的角落》等。 劳拉与欧洲委员会和联合国等密切合作，致力于解决性别不平等问题，并因其对性别平等事业的贡献，被授予大英帝国勋章，还被《星期日泰晤士报》等刊物评为年度女性。 【译者简介】 蒋怡，毕业于南京大学外国语学院英语系，获文学博士学位，现任教于江南大学外国语学院英语系，译有《最接近生活的事物》《致命尖端》等。

【作者简介】 劳拉·贝茨（Laura Bates），英国女性主义作家、活动家，《星期日泰晤士报》畅销书作家，“日常性别歧视项目”创始人，该项目收集了超过20万份关于性别不平等的证词。她的代表作有《厌女国度》《隐秘的角落》等。 劳拉与欧洲委员会和联合国等密切合作，致力于解决性别不平等问题，并因其对性别平等事业的贡献，被授予大英帝国勋章，还被《星期日泰晤士报》等刊物评为年度女性。 【译者简介】 蒋怡，毕业于南京大学外国语学院英语系，获文学博士学位，现任教于江南大学外国语学院英语系，译有《最接近生活的事物》《致命尖端》等。