fourth, fractal (or viral, radiant) stage value, no point reference al — Jean Baudrillard, Transparency Evil: Essays Extreme Phenomena

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At the fourth, the fractal (or viral, or radiant) stage of value, there is no point of reference at all, and value radiates in all directions, occupying all interstices, without reference to anything whatsoever, by virtue of pure contiguity. At the fractal stage there is no longer any equivalence, whether natural or general. Properly speaking there is now no law of value, merely a sort of epidemic of value, a sort of general metastasis of value, a haphazard proliferation and dispersal of value. Indeed, we should really no longer speak of 'value' at all, for this kind of propagation or chain reaction makes all valuation possible.

Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

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