Semantic Alienation and the Formation of Class Consciousness (SPE-014)

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…