Linearity and accumulation rupture the cyclic alliance that once fully realized value

Evidence

All accumulation is nothing but a remainder, and the accumulation of remainders, in the sense that it is a rupture of alliance, and in the linear infinity of accumulation and calculation, in the linear infinity of production, compensates for the energy and value that used to be accomplished in the cycle of alliance. Now, what traverses a cycle is completely realized, whereas in the dimension of the infinite, everything that is below the line of the infinite, below the line of eternity (this stockpile of time that itself is also, as with any stockpile, a rupture of alliances), all of that is nothing but the remainder. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 484

Categorization

• XREF: Baudrillard’s symbolic-exchange framework (cycle of alliance) being set against linear accumulation — echoes his earlier work on symbolic exchange against production. — connects to: Firm-level accumulation rates depend on macro forces irreducible to individual firms — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 817