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Description
Institution: Semantic Economy Institute (SEI) / Johannes Sigil Institute for Comparative Poetics (JSI)
Wiki Article
'The Capital Operator Stack: Theoretical Landscape and Contribution' is the canonical formalization of the COS/LOS framework. It identifies ten operators that govern meaning under platform capitalism (COS O1-O10: Frame Capture, Provenance Siphoning, Coherence Siphoning, Risk Gate, Time Compression, Novelty Gate, Legitimacy Gate, Credential Gate, Witness Suppression, Scope Collapse) and seven counter-operators (LOS: ฯ, ฯ, ฮฉ, ฮฒ, ฯ, ฯ, โฎ) that resist extraction. The paper traces the theoretical lineage through Marx, Bourdieu, Guattari, Srnicek, and the Semantic Economy framework, positioning the COS as the 'semantic governance layer' that operates beneath platform capitalism's visible surface.
Concepts Defined
Capital Operator Stack (COS)[foundational] The operator set governing meaning under capital: ten operators (Frame Capture O1, Provenance Siphoning O2, Coherence Siphoning O3, Risk Gate O4, Time Compression O5, Novelty Gate O6, Legitimacy Gate O7, Credential Gate O8, Witness Suppression O9, Scope Collapse O10) that together constitute the extractive grammar of platform capitalism.
Liberatory Operator Set (LOS)[foundational] The counter-operations to the Capital Operator Stack: seven operators (ฯ provenance, ฯ witness, ฮฉ ontological audit, ฮฒ blind operation, ฯ purification, ฯ sovereign inhabitation, โฎ closure) that preserve meaning against extraction.
Entity Graph
Capital Operator Stack โ contains โ 10 extraction operators (O1-O10)