What tools do we use to plot/describe (perhaps a poor choice of Lacanian phrasing) immaterial labor? What we (communists) use presently is derived from the former hegemonic notions of labor in real/formal subsumption. However, with immaterial labor, and the attendant notion of labor 'beyond measure', what can we now use to speak towards class as the previous tools are based on a value in/of measure?
Michaels reply:
'It's a good question about the new instruments. It makes me think of a footnote I read recently in a new book by Doug Henwood. He writes about a scholar of accounting who tries to extend accounting to the production of value that is not measurable. ... even though things have changed, we can often start from the old economic measures and proceed from there rather than remaining empty handed.'
Hence my confusion, and my grasping at any book that might address this problem.
Cheers, Dan