'simulacrum' in Cognitive Capitalism | Bookmarker

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(noun) image representation / (noun) an insubstantial form or semblance of something; trace (plural: simulacra)

the deceptively attractive idea that finance is a simulacrum and that what is needed is a return to the true economy

he disagrees with this because of the accounting problem (re: intangibles)

—p.181 Does the financial crisis sound the knell of a cognitive capitalism that is stillborn? (167) by Yann Moulier-Boutang

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