Goods: Advertising, Urban Space, and the Moral Law of the Image

by Emanuele Coccia

Book Overview

Objects are all around us--and 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823280233
• ISBN13: 9780823280230
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.8"