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Author(s):	Emanuele Coccia

Date:	2021	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0823280233
Pages:	112	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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Objects are all around usand images of objects, advertisements for objects. Things are no longer merely purely physical or economic entities: within the visual economy of advertising, they are inescapably moral. Any object, regardless of its nature, can for at least a moment aspire to be good, can become not just an object of value but a complex of possible happiness, a moral source of perfection for any one of us.

This provocative book, already available in Italian, French, and German, and written by a major new figure in European thought, argues that our relation to things is what makes us human. For Coccia, the object world must be conceived as the site of what the philosophical tradition has considered "the good," and the flat surfaces of billboards and posters become the first form of any object-oriented ontology. Positing a radical political praxis against a facile materialist critique of things, Coccia shows how objects become the medium through which a city enunciates its ethos, making an ethical life available to those who live among them.

When we acknowledge that our notion of the good resides within a world of things, we must grant that in advertising, humans have revealed themselves as organisms that are ethically inseparable from the very things they produce, exchange, and desire. In the advertising imagination, to be human is to be a moral cyborg whose existence attains ethical perfection only via the universe of things. The alienation commodities cause and express is moral rather than economic or social  we need our own products not just to survive biologically or to improve the physical conditions of our existence, but to live morally.

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