Derrida’s ‘Phenomenology of Value’ and the Thing in the Epoch of Globalization
Derrida’s ‘Phenomenology of Value’ and the Thing in the Epoch of Globalization

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I argue that Jacques Derrida’s writings on Marx draw out a “double frame” that constitutes the phenomenology of value. Whereas the interior part of the frame is composed of use-value (understood as a “working thing” or “thinking work”) the exterior corresponds to exchange-value, and it is from the uneven overlapping of the two that the economic reductions, subtractions, and additions begin. I, then, consider the fate of the inner frame in the epoch of globalization, in which the becoming-thing of the thing as such coincides with the projection of the inner frame of value onto the world.

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