Lotus Club Warsaw

For our upcoming film meeting, we will discuss "Cléo from 5 to 7" by Agnès Varda.
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Film blurb:
Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.

For our next meeting, we will discuss "The System of Objects" by Jean Baudrillard.

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Book blurb:
The System of Objects offers a cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society. Baudrillard classifies the everyday objects of the “new technical order” as functional, nonfunctional and metafunctional.
He contrasts “modern” and “traditional” functional objects, subjecting home furnishing and interior design to a celebrated semiological analysis. His treatment of nonfunctional or “marginal” objects focuses on antiques and the psychology of collecting