Table of Contents



1) Nuts to an Anthropological Theory of Value


2) Relation between Agents Mediated by a Relation between Entities


3) Saussurean Values


4) Inalienable Possessions


5) Aesthetic Value, Poetic Function, Equivalence Framing


6) Chickens, Machetes, and Chains: Meta-Equivalence and The Purification of Value


7) Singularities, Replacements, Commodities (and Something Else Entirely)


8) The Translation of Equivalence: Value, Sense, Path


9) Possible Worlds: From Saussure’s Value to Frege’s Sense (and Truth Value)


10) Reworded Possibilities: From Imagining Outcomes to Second-Guessing Actions


11) The Wording and Worlding of Truth-Value


12) Commensuration and Comparison


13) The Genealogy of Intensity, The Revaluation of Value


14) Semiotic Values


15) The Regimentation and Internalization of Value


16) From Figures to Grounds: Labor Power and Semiotic Potential


17) The Commodity is a Semiotic Process


18) Grounding Economic Value, and/or Regimenting Price


19) A Mayan Ontology of The Anti-Commodity


20) Energy, Work and Friction


21) Conversion, Preservation, and Evil


22) Affordances, Instruments, and Actions


23) Action, Agency, Excellence, and Existential Values


24) From Short-Term to Long-Term Action


25) Agency, Personhood, Power


26) Credit, Debt, Ownership, and the Personification of Deontic Modality


27) Felicity and Felicitousness, Aristotle and Austin


28) The Hau, qua Performativity and Inter(im)subjectivity of Economic Rituals


29) Renown and Resound: The Care of Self and The Curation of Stories


30) Evaluative Standards, Ideals, and Second-Order Desire


31) The Story as a Representation of Ideal Actions and/or Ethical Persons


32) The Stories We Tell are (More or Less Equivalent to) Kula Shells


33) Meta-Ideals, Idols, and/or The Worthiness of Others’ Worlds



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