Luc Boltanski - Enrichment

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2 Front Matter Enrichment A Critique of Commodities Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre Translated by Catherine Porter polity

3 Acknowledgments

4 Translator’s note

5 Foreword by Charles Sabel

6 Introduction Notes

7 Part I Destruction and Creation of Wealth 1 The Age of the Enrichment EconomyThe deindustrialization of Western Europe Old and new sites of prosperity The omnipresence of enriched objects The rise of luxury Heritage creation The development of tourism The expansion of cultural activities The art trade Arles: from railroad shops to contemporary art exhibits An economic reorientation toward the wealthy Notes 2 Toward EnrichmentThe characteristics of an enrichment economy Dormant resources in the enrichment economy Changes in French cultural policy A new perspective in economic analysis A shift to different scales From ornamental patrimony to heritage creation Local mutations in global capitalism Partisans of things Notes

8 Part II Prices and Forms of Valuation 3 Commerce in Things The commodity condition On the circulation of things Changing hands The process of determination Price and metaprice Critiquing the price Value as justification for a price Price as an element in the construction of reality Notes 4 Forms of ValuationStructure and transformation group of forms of valuation Analytic and narrative presentations of things The problem of valuation by means of images On the reproduction of things Lacks, totalities, and scarcity Institutions and forms of valuation Structuralism and capitalism Notes

9 Part III Commodity Structures 5 The Standard FormThe model for the standard form The standard form and industrial production Prototypes and specimens The proliferation of things without persons The internal tensions of the standard form The unease created by the standard form Notes 6 Standardization and DifferentiationThe historical dimension of the forms of valuation From trade in things to the circulation of commodities The effect of standardization on the constitution of forms of valuation Material economies, immaterial economies Notes 7 The Collection FormThe modernity of the collection form Systematic collection as an arrangement for valuation Collectors’ items Price and value of collectors’ items The fields of collectables The structure of the collection form Notes 8 Collection and EnrichmentThe usefulness of useless things Collecting in thrall to marketing On the use of the collection form by luxury firms The collection form and contemporary art The contradiction of the enrichment economy Notes 9 The Trend FormTrend, sign, and distinction The structure of the trend form The economic constraints of the trend form From the trend form to the collection form Notes 10 The Asset FormCharacteristics of the asset form On the liquidity of things as assets The commercial potential of assets Notes

10 Part IV Who Profits from the Past 11 Profit in a Commercial SocietyCompetition and differentiation Surplus work value and profit Surplus market value and profit Displacing commodities or displacing buyers Shifts among forms of valuation Profiting from the wealthy in the capitalist cosmos Notes 12 The Enrichment Economy in Practice An enriched village: Laguiole in Aubrac Cutlery valorized by the collection form “A name, a brand, a village” Notes 13 The Shape of the Enrichment SocietyThe organization of things and persons Who can profit from an enrichment economy? “Losers” and “servants” The return of “rentiers” Notes 14 Creators in the Enrichment SocietyThe economic condition of culture workers Self-promotion by creators The constraint of self-exploitation The circumstances behind the crystallization of social classes Troubled critiques Notes

11 Conclusion: Action and StructuresThe enrichment economy and a critique of capitalism On pragmatic structuralism Notes

12 Appendix Some basic elements of the language of category theory Forms of commodity valuations Notes

13 References

14 Index

15 End User License Agreement

1 Chapter 4 Figure 4.1Structural dimensions of the forms of valuation

2 Chapter 5 Figure 5.1Structural schema of the standard form

3 Chapter 7 Figure 7.1Structural schema of the collection form

4 Chapter 9 Figure 9.1Structural schema of the trend form

5 Chapter 10 Figure 10.1Structural schema of the asset form

6 Chapter 12 Figure 12.1Standard form Figure 12.2Collection form

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