AUT: Re: Immeasurable value

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From: "Tom Messmer" <messmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>



Does anyone have any insight into the section in Empire 4.1 on
"Immeasurability"?  They write:

 "Even if in postmodern capitalism there is
no longer a fixed scale that measures value, value nonetheless is still
powerful and ubiquitous....In Empire, the construction of value takes
place
beyond measure."

and

"...outside measure refers to the impossibility of power's calculating and
ordering production at a global level,  beyond measure refers to the
vitality
of the productive context, the expression of labor as desire, and its
capacities to constitute the biopolitical fabric of Empre from below."

This entire chapter seems extremely fishy to me, really unclear and
vaguely religious sounding. Can anyone clarify this section, or is it as
silly as I think it is?

Tom

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It has been quite a while since I perused E but I think it has to do with
a problem pointed out by David Ricardo:

http://home.manhattan.edu/~fiona.maclachlan//research/Ricardo.htm




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