Catherine Malabou’s Ontological Capitalism Converges with the Resonance Value of Edgard Geyskens
Introductory article : An ontological basis for non-reductive valuation Catherine Malabou’s oeuvre offers a fruitful conceptualization for a recalibration of economic valuation. Her analyses of plasticity, subjectivity and so-called ontological capitalism (Malabou, 2005, 2008) show how contemporary economic structures produce not only goods and services, but forms of being, experience of time and attribution of value. In Le Change Heidegger (1998), Malabou examines the Heideggerian articulation of value and favour, arguing that value is not a mere economic given, but…