Friday, November 20, 2015

Karl Seldon on "The Uttermost Root of "the exchange-value" [Marx].



Dear Reader,



Reproduced below is one of Karl Seldon’s most characteristic characterizations of the cognitive  psychohistorical causal core of modern human history [E.D. edits applied] --

As Marx was so often wont to note, modern, “capital-relation”-centered society, is the form of society ‘‘‘founded on [the] exchange-value’’’, and, as we so often note, Marx’s ‘‘‘elementary or accidental form of [commodity-]value’’’ is the uttermost root thereof, the uttermost root of ‘‘‘the exchange-value’’’, and of all of its profound psychohistorical consequences.

That ‘‘‘elementary form of value’’’ is, we hold, the, mostly-unconscious, ideological core paradigm of the ‘Modern «Mentalité» entire, of the Modern Human Phenome:  the equal valuation of pairs of qualitatively different objects/«arithmoi» as if by pure quantity alone -- by means of a third «arithmos» of [money-]objects, expressing a qualitative common denominator for that pair of otherwise disparate objects, one whose common character [presently socially-necessary abstract labor-time cost of reproduction] is typically unconscious for its users, inculcating, in the cognitive neuro-plasticity of those users, the semblance of a purely quantitative praxis.

The Modern World -- the world of the capital-relation, of the alienated labor relation [the wage-labor-relation] -- with all of its pluses and minuses, vis-a-vis the previous incarnations of collective humanity, and of the ‘human phenome, stems from this!”

-- a characterization which I feel to be eminently worthy of your deepest consideration.



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information regarding these Seldonian insights, please see --

 

www.dialectics.info

 

 

 

 

 

For partially pictographical, ‘poster-ized’ visualizations of many of these Seldonian insights -- specimens of dialectical artas well as illustrated books by the F.E.D. Press, see --

https://www.etsy.com/shop/DialecticsMATH

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

¡ENJOY!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regards,

 

 

Miguel Detonacciones,

 

Voting Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.];

Elected Member, F.E.D. General Council;

Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison;

Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison.

 

 

 

 

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