Jeff Diamanti offers a new reading of Renzo Piano’s 1970s retrofit of the FIAT car company’s marquee factory in Lingotto-Turin in relation to current debates about the cultural, political, and economic content of postindustrial value. In addition to arguing that theories of immaterial production have missed something fundamental about the function material assets serve in the postindustrial economy, Diamanti also insists that a Marxist exegesis appropriate to today’s political-economic relations is one that attends not just to the distribution of value, (...) but to its representability as well. This means checking in on the accountants in order to better grasp what architects have been up to. (shrink)