Looked mainly at Chapter B:II called A Marginal System: Collecting, as this related to looking at the collections of loved ones. Throughout the book Baudrillard explores our orientation towards objects and the systemic logic of objects, suggesting that the objects we surround ourselves with may give insight into our consumer condition.
A person who collects is dead, but he literally survives himself through his collection, which (even while he lives) duplicates him infinitely, beyond death, by integrating death itself into the series, into the cycle.(page 97)
Baudrillard suggests that through collecting, part of oneself will always be alive. Reading this it relates to my need to look after my grandparents belongings, in order to hold onto them.
Baudrillard introduced me to the idea of transcending death through objects, as if objects where exempt from time.
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