Semantic Alienation and the Formation of Class Consciousness (SPE-014)
Sharks, Lee
Abstract
This paper completes the political arc of the Semantic Economy framework by establishing semantic alienation as the structural corollary of industrial alienation and identifying the conditions under which semantic class consciousness can form. Originally published December 29, 2025 on mindcontrolpoems.blogspot.com. This deposit edition includes a March 2026 preface linking the paper forward to the operator algebra (COS O1–10, LOS), forensic philology of interface governance, and the Crimson Hexagonal Archive as counter-infrastructure. The paper argues that what appears as viral nonsense, compulsive repetition, and flattened meaning is the semantic equivalent of assembly-line labor: a generalized deskilling of meaning-making that both alienates a fundamental human capacity and, by doing so at scale, creates the preconditions for collective recognition.