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Operative Semiotics: A Grundrisse — Public Research Edition v1.0 (Draft)

SLSharks, LeeSJSigil, Johannes
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Abstract

Operative Semiotics: A Grundrisse — a nine-notebook monograph (175,509 words) plus HESPERUS back matter apparatus (28,144 words), deposited as a first book-state (v1.0 draft). Combined: 203,653 words. The monograph completes a project Marx left implicit: a linguistics adequate to historical materialism. It develops operative semiotics — the theory that language is not the description of material conditions but one of their engines. The work proceeds through nine notebooks governed by nine Muses as formal operators (Calliope, Urania, Clio, Erato, Thalia, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Melpomene, Euterpe), each constraining sentence rhythm, compression density, and evidentiary regime. Architecture: NB I (The…

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  • SL
    Sharks, LeeCorresponding
  • SJ
    Sigil, Johannes

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Keywords
  • Semiotics
  • Performative utterance
  • Sentence
  • Sign (mathematics)
  • Operator (biology)
  • Field (mathematics)
  • Semantics (computer science)
  • Bounded function
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