... that capitalist practices make as they reconfigure status societies into contract ones. Instead, I propose the rudiments of a theory of cultural capital grounded in the exploitation of labor power through institutions of knowledge formation, and I nominate the form through which this value appears as prestige...

... of crisis experienced by all these entities (though in different ways and with different stakes) is a consequence of the playing out of structural logics of global capital and biocapital. These logics are constituted by the value systems of speculative capitalism; the instrument of intellectual property...

...Martijn Konings Heterodox critiques of contemporary capitalism tend to depict speculation as the irrational investment in insubstantial signs. This essay suggests that the secularized subject speculates not in defiance of fundamental values but precisely because it has none to fall back...

...Dick Bryan; Michael Rafferty; Chris Jefferis The process of financialization of accumulation brings to the fore the issue of risk and risk trading. This article explores the way finance and risk relate to capital accumulation and how risk might be integrated into Marxian value theory. It looks...

... to the capacities of money, transformations that have rendered wages an unstable measure of value, including any value that may be constituted by labor. Such transformations demand a focus not on what wages should measure and comprise but on their potentiality, that is, on what they can do. In this regard, I...

...” and argues that the “real as process” informs both the process of valorization of capital and the process of prefiguring a reality that is not-yet. In moments of negation/creation value is confronted by hope. Negation creates an excess that occupies a wide space in the reality of struggle that cannot...

...James Applewhite Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 James Applewhite Poetry and Value: A Personal View As I think of critical theory and its con­ cern with signs, and with ideas of cultural production that incorporate art and the com­ mercial artifacts of popular culture...

...John Christian Ransmeier, Ph. D. Copyright © 1903 by Duke University Press 1903 The Practical Value of Modern Language Study in the Secondary School By John Christian Ransmeier, Ph. D., Professor of German in Trinity College An examination of the schemes of study in the high school de­...

...John P. Kennedy, Jr. Copyright © 1906 by Duke University Press 1906 The Value of a State Library Commission By John P. Kennedy, Jr., State Librarian of Virginia For a century prior to the war between the states, the ques­ tions of government were largely constitutional: since that time...

...S. A. Knapp Copyright © 1907 by Duke University Press 1907 The Value of Agricultural Instruction in the Secondary Schools By S. A. Knapp, Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture The thoughtful people of our country have become alarmed at the rapid increase...

...W. W. Keen, M.D. Copyright © 1923 by Duke University Press 1923 The Value of Medical Research to Mankind and to Animals Especially as Illustrated by the Achievements of Louis Pasteur* W. W. Keen, M.D. Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. It is a great...

...W. W. Keen, M.D. Copyright © 1923 by Duke University Press 1923 The Value of Medical Research to Mankind and to Animals Especially as Illustrated by the Achievements of Louis Pasteur (Concluded) W. W. Keen, MiD. Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Turning...

... crucial for undermining the criminalization of marginalized people. Vanessa Carlisle Sex Work Is Star Shaped : Antiwork Politics and the Value of Embodied Knowledge W hen Carol Leigh (1997: 229), aka Scarlot Har- lot, coined the term sex work at a San Francisco conference by Women Against Violence...

...Barbara Herrnstein Smith Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Barbara Herrnstein Smith Value/Evaluation Issues of value and evaluation tend to recur wherever literature, art, and other forms of cultural activity become a focus of discus­ sion, whether in informal or institutional...

...Robert Withington Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 THE VALUE OF INQUIRY ROBERT WITHINGTON IN Characteristics, an essay which used to be more widely read than it is now, Carlyle observed that the beginning of Inquiry is Disease, that the sign of health is Unconsciousness...

...Thomas Lewis Ellis, Jr. Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Marx and Deutsch on Value Thomas Lewis Ellis, Jr. I Perhaps one of the truths which we should hold self-evident is that no two people can have exactly the same viewpoint on the same object at least not at the same time...

...R. Morton Smith Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Unnecessary Oedipus Doubts on the Value of Rebellion R. Morton Smith Today Oedipus might be allegorized as the grandson of Jeremiah, who can deplore but neither sympathize with nor correct the way­ wardness of his descendants...

...Alexander Cowie The Landscape and the Looking Glass: Willa Cather’s Search for Value . By Randall John H. III . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1960 . Pp. xv , 425 . $5.75 . Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 242 The South Atlantic Quarterly is not uncritical...

...John Hicks Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 Exploration of Value: Warren s Criticism John Hicks Let me confess at once that I speak with a friendly voice of the critical writings of Robert Penn Warren. It is not fair to approach, or to reproach, him with cliches of expectation...

...Richard L. Watson, Jr. The Roosevelt Court: A Study in Judicial Politics and Values, 1937–1947 . By Pritchett C. Herman . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1948 . Pp. xvi , 314 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews 297 across the land...