The Capital Operator Stack: Theoretical Landscape and Contribution — A Political-Semantic Analysis of Meaning Governance

'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: φ, ψ, Ω, β, π, σ, ∮) 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.