Feb 03, 2016
"Is anything beyond capital? Exploring the relationship between values and value"
There has been a great deal of interest in how capital has intervened in almost every area of life, leading some to propose new forms of capital e.g.‘emotionalcapitalism’, and others to suggest that processes of valuation are now the major method for understanding the social world. Whilst, no doubt, capital behaves according to its own logic, finding new lines of flight, converting affects into value, making multi-culturalism market able, generating new forms of bio-capital, and making many of our actions subject to the logic of calculation, this project asks if anything is left behind. Is there anything that cannot be capitalized upon? Many social theories reproduce the logic of capital. But if we only understand the world from the perspective of this logic what do we miss seeing? This paper explores values (and their relationship to value) through the digital relations of Facebook.