The Lexicon · Genealogy · Modern
BOURDIEU, PIERRE
1930–2002
Cultural Capital (The Codified Appropriation of Financial Terminology)
Bourdieu showed that capital is not only money; cultural distinction is its own currency, convertible at advantageous rates. CoCA's Codified Appropriation (§3.4.1) inverts the analysis: we run the conversion publicly, in the open. Sunk Cost becomes a spiritual term; Tragedy of the Commons becomes pastoral; Spin becomes koan. Cultural capital is no longer hidden under the chips. It is the chips.