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99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value A Postcapitalist Manifesto Brian Massumi 99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value Other Books by Brian Massumi Published by the University of Minnesota Press Architectures of the Unforeseen: Essays in the Occurrent Arts Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience Erin Manning and Brian Massumi The Politics of Everyday Fear Brian Massumi, Editor 99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value A Postcapitalist Manifesto Brian Massumi University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis London Copyright 2018 by Brian Massumi All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or other- wise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401- 2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu ISBN 978-1-5179-0588-0 (hc) ISBN 978-1-5179-0587-3 (pb) A Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Printed in the United States of America on acid- free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal- opportunity educator and employer. 23 22 21 20 19 18 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents 1 99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value: A Postcapitalist Manifesto 137 Bibliography 99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value A Postcapitalist Manifesto T1 It is time to take back value. For many, value has long been dis- missed as a concept so thoroughly compromised, so soaked in normative strictures and stained by complicity with capitalist power, as to be unredeemable. This has only abandoned value to purveyors of normativity and apologists of economic oppression. Value is too valuable to be left in those hands. T2 In the absence of a strong alternative conception of value, it is all too easy for normative gestures to slip back in. Priorities are still weighed, orientations favored, directions followed. Without a con- cept of value, by what standards are these choices made? Usually none that are enunciated. Standards of judgment are simply al- lowed to operate implicitly. Normativity is not avoided. It becomes a sneak. This can prove to be just as oppressive. T3 To take back value is not to reimpose standards of judgment pro- viding a normative yardstick. That would do little other than to make the oppressiveness explicit again.
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