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>After the metaphors of body, motion, and value have become disassociated during the era of the quantification of qualities, the ideal of unification is restored by means of a purely abstract, conventional standard. The reader has by now undoubtedly realized that this was accomplished in physics with the invention of the metaphor of energy. In biology, we shall suggest it happened with the stablization of the metaphor of the gene. With respect to the metaphor of value, this was practically accomplished by the economic actors when the institution of money was cut adrift from any specific ties to any particular commodity, and was instead left to merely serve as the eidolon of pure abstract value
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