ABSTRACT
The self-domesticated animal, a productive organism with use-value, became an exchange-vaIue. One receives something useful, and one renders in return artifacts without utilizable properties. In the sublime economy of Redemption, the substance whose use value is null, the carnal, nature willing its own nullity of will, becomes the measure of the exchange-value of all goods of use value. The most generalized form of exchange-value, the monetary form, requires that all object s of use-value can be exchanged for one item absolutely indeterminate in use-value. The voluptuous emotion, evanescent and sterile discharge, acquires value in a political economy by reason of its capacity to render goods of use-value useless. The measure of its value is calibrated by the number of those it can deprive of useful goods. An indefinitely extended system of equivalencies, offered in exchange for representatives of the indefinitely deferred absolute of gratification, love.
