The expanded form of value is an endless provisional chain of equivalences

Evidence

This is then the “total or expanded form of value,” a kind of infinite and infinitely provisional chain of equivalence that courses through the object world of a social formation, and in which the objects ceaselessly change places in the two poles of the value equation (which, as we have said, is not reversible). People ceaselessly exchange, without any stability in the process: “the relative expression of value of the commodity is incomplete, because the series of its representations never comes to an end. The chain, of which each equation of value is a link, is liable at any moment to be lengthened by a newly created commodity, which will provide the material for a fresh expression of value” (MC156). — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 519

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘total or expanded form of value’ as an open-ended, never-completing chain of commodity equivalences.
• XREF: connects to: Value as an abstraction only rules societies built on commodified exchange — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 58; Divergence between value and price arises when one value-quality becomes a single standard. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 257; The logic of mapping the world is structurally inexhaustible expansion — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 475 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Value as an abstraction only rules societies built on commodified exchange — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 58; Divergence between value and price arises when one value-quality becomes a single standard. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 257; The logic of mapping the world is structurally inexhaustible expansion — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 475 (+1 more)