Transparency means stripping things of singularity so money can equate them

Evidence

Matters prove transparent when they shed all negativity, when they are smoothed out and leveled, when they do not resist being integrated into smooth streams of capital, communication, and information… . Images are transparent when—freed from all dramaturgy, choreography, and scenography, from any hermeneutic depth, and indeed from any meaning at all—they become pornographic. Pornography is unmediated contact between the image and the eye. Things prove transparent when they abandon their singularity and find expression through their price alone. Money, which makes it possible to equate anything with anything else, abolishes all incommensurability, and all singularity. The society of transparency is an inferno of the same. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 96

Categorization

• DEFINE: Byung-Chul Han’s definition of the ‘society of transparency’ — essential vocabulary for explaining the Corpocene’s demand for authentic self-production.
• QUESTION: Worth tracing how ‘transparency = commensurability through price’ links to the labor theory of value and the influencer’s labor being priced.
• XREF: connects to: Transparency is a productivity device, not a political value — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 33