Die Dinge, Die Zeichen, Die Waren (Objects Signs Commodities)

The author bases his article on the premise that since about
1800 the development of philosophy and aesthetics has changed
profoundly under the exigencies of the Industrial Revolution,
and the transformation of the objective world it caused. Weibel
shows that photography, film, video and the computer together
probably constitute the decisive factor contributing to the
transformation of objects into signs and commodities. As a
result, "Objects have in fact lost their identity, and the two
being causally linked, so has the human Self". Philosophers such
as Hegel, Kant, Schelling, Marx, Husserl, Heidegger and Guy
Debord are cited. (This article was first read at the Symposium
on Photography XI, held at Graz 1990).
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