![]() ![]() ![]() In symbolic exchange, objects are exchanged for each other beyond any use value or even exchange value and without any ulterior end in mind. In its most general sense, it arises as a variation of symbolic exchange, a concept that, as Baudrillard has admitted and as numerous commentators have pointed out, comes out of a reading of the anthropologists Marcel Mauss and Emile Durkheim and their elaboration of a form of sumptuary, non-economic exchange that occurs in tribal societies. Indeed, although the term takes on a specific meaning and serves a particular purpose in Baudrillard's later work, we can trace a genealogy of it in Baudrillard's earlier writings. ![]() Although it is privileged for the first time there, the term originally occurs in the books Fatal Strategies (2008a ) and Cool Memories II (1996b ), and it later becomes one of Baudrillard's 'passwords' ( PW). In his mid-to-late-career Impossible Exchange (2001a ), Baudrillard theorises the term 'impossible exchange' ( IEx). ![]()
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