Archive - Absolute Value

How Do We Recognize Usury?

A brief excursus on a deceptively simple question

Jan 10 •

August 2024

VI: A Bill is a Bill

The beginning of 'Part Two' of the blog. On Hegel's use of bills of exchange as an example of value.

Aug 2, 2024 •

July 2024

V: Accounting for Time

A conclusion to Part One of this blog and a promissory note towards Part Two.

Jul 19, 2024 •

IV: The Problem of Potentiality

The metaphysical problem of money in Aristotle

Jul 10, 2024 •

III: Nómos and Nomisma

On Aristotle's so-called 'failure' to found a theory of value.

Jul 3, 2024 •

June 2024

II: A Grammar of Abstraction

On the idea that money is a 'measure' in Hegel, Marx, and Aristotle.

Jun 26, 2024 •

I: The Invention of Time

To hear the cultural historians tell it, time as we know it began somewhere between the years 1300 and 1650.

Jun 21, 2024 •

Introduction: Absolute Value

As I've been working through the beginning of what—I hope!—is the home-stretch of composing a book manuscript on the philosophical archaeology of the…

Jun 21, 2024 •

This is Absolute Value.

Jun 21, 2024 •

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