{"product_id":"enrichment-a-critique-of-commodities-hardback-9781509528721","title":"Enrichment; A Critique of Commodities (Hardback) 9781509528721","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEnrichment\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Critique of Commodities\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLuc Boltanski (Author), Arnaud Esquerre (Author), Catherine Porter (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509528721, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 April 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e600 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 16.3 x 4.3 cm, 0.862 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“Boltanski and Esquerre propose a grammar of things and their value that sheds new light on the transformations of contemporary capitalism. An original and powerful work which will undoubtedly stimulate much debate.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eClément Lefranc\u003ci\u003e, Sciences humaines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e“A seminal book.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEuropean Journal of Sociology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“arresting and impressive”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJournal of Classical Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Expansion of industry blocked, capitalism in France—and not only there—seeks shelter in the production by select artisans and artists of 'authentic' goods for the winners of globalization. Enrichment is a brilliant and deeply disturbing study of this grim involution, by which a nation’s history and identity become its last resource, and new forms of labor market inclusion and exclusion disarm traditional criticism of exploitation. This book is a foundation stone in a sociology of dystopia for our times.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Sabel, Columbia Law School\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Uplifting, fun, accessible to all, Enrichment is the most scholarly and relevant analysis to finally make sense of the current 'madness' of the art market. It fascinates speculators, disconcerts art lovers, and arouses public distrust. But the observation is obvious to all: in our post-industrial societies, heritage, luxury goods and even contemporary art are the only source of wealth that we have. They are now part of the main foundations of our economy.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatherine Millet, founder and editor of Art Press\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book offers a major new account of modern capitalism and of the ways in which value and wealth are created today. Boltanski and Esquerre argue that capitalism in the West has recently undergone a fundamental transformation characterized by de-industrialization, on the one hand, and, on the other, by the increased exploitation of certain resources that, while not entirely new, have taken on unprecedented importance.  It is this new form of exploitation that has given rise to what they call the ‘enrichment economy’.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The enrichment economy is based less on the production of new objects and more on the enrichment of things and places that already exist.  It has grown out of a combination of many different activities and phenomena, all of which involve, in their varying ways, the exploitation of the past. The enrichment economy draws upon the trade in things that are intended above all for the wealthy, thus providing a supplementary source of enrichment for the wealthy people who deal in these things and exacerbating income inequality.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As opportunities to profit from the exploitation of industrial labour began to diminish, capitalism shifted its focus to expand the range of things that could be exploited.  This gave rise to a plurality of different forms for making things valuable – valuing objects in terms of their properties is only one such form.  The form that plays a central role in the enrichment economy is what the authors call the ‘collection form’, which values objects based on the gap they fill in a collection. This valuation process relies on the creation of narratives which enrich commodities.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This wide-ranging and highly original work makes a major contribution to our understanding of contemporary societies and of how capitalism is changing today.  It will be of great value to students and scholars in sociology, political economy and cultural studies, as well as to anyone interested in the social and economic transformations shaping our world.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Translator’s note\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Preface by Charles Sabel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART I. Destruction and Creation of Wealth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. The Age of the Enrichment Economy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The deindustrialization of Western Europe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Old and new sites of prosperity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The omnipresence of enriched objects\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The rise of luxury\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Heritage creation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The development of tourism\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The expansion of cultural activities\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The art trade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Arles: from railroad shops to contemporary art exhibits\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An economic reorientation toward the wealthy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Toward Enrichment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The characteristics of an enrichment economy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dormant resources in the enrichment economy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Changes in French cultural policy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A new perspective in economic analysis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A shift to different scales\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From ornamental patrimony to heritage creation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Local mutations in global capitalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Partisans of things\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Prices and Forms of Valuation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Commerce in Things\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The commodity condition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On the circulation of things\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Changing hands\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The process of determination\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Price and metaprice \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Critiquing the price\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Value as justification for a price\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Price as an element in the construction of reality\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Forms of Valuation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Structure and transformation group of forms of valuation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Analytic and narrative presentations of things\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The problem of valuation by means of images\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On the reproduction of things\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Institutions and forms of valuation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Structuralism and capitalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Competition from a systematic viewpoint\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Capitalism and markets \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The role of the capacity to reflect\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The structure of the forms of valuation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Commodity Structures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Standard Form\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The model for the standard form\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The standard form and industrial production\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Prototypes and specimens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The proliferation of things without persons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The internal tensions of the standard form\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The unease created by the standard form\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Standardization and Differentiation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The historical dimension of the forms of valuation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From trade in things to the circulation of commodities\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The effect of standardization on the constitution of forms of valuation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Material economies, immaterial economies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. The Collection Form\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The modernity of the collection form\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Systematic collection as an arrangement for valuation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Collectors’ items \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Price and value of collectors’ items\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The fields of collectibles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The structure of the collection form\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Collection and Enrichment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The usefulness of useless things\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Collecting in thrall to marketing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On the use of the collection form by luxury firms\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From lumber to luxury goods: the transformation of the Pinault group into Kering\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Capturing the wealth of the wealthiest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Values and prices of luxury product brands\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Standard products with a “collector effect” and collectors’ items\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The collection form and contemporary art \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The contradiction of the enrichment economy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. The Trend Form\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Trend, sign, and distinction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The structure of the trend form\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The economic constraints of the trend form\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From the trend form to the collection form\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. The Asset Form\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Characteristics of the asset form\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On the liquidity of things as assets\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The commercial potential of assets\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Who Profits from the Past\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. Profit in a Commercial Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Competition and differentiation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Surplus work value and profit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Surplus market value and profit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Displacing commodities or displacing buyers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Profiting from the wealthy in the capitalist cosmos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. The Enrichment Economy in Practice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An enriched village: Laguiole in Aubrac\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The transformation of habitats through heritage creation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      New “traditional festivals” in the village\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Heritage creation around food\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A landscape to contemplate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Cutlery valorized by the collection form\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The “artisanal” manufacture of a knife in Laguiole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A collectible knife\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Museification as a means of commercialization\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The problem of the origin of materials\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Distinguishing Laguiole’s knives from those made elsewhere\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A name, a brand, a village”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How the residents lost the ability to dispose freely of the name of their village\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A geographic indication to “highlight the treasures of the territories”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13. The Shape of the Enrichment Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The organization of things and persons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Who can profit from an enrichment economy?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Losers” and “servants”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The return of “rentiers”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14. Creators in the Enrichment Society \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The economic condition of culture workers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Self-promotion by creators\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The constraint of self-exploitation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The circumstances behind the crystallization of social classes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Troubled critiques\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. 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