Pixelated Semantics

A schizotypical inventory

Semantic Capitalism

A poet turns theory into practise, "towards a generalized semantic capitalism", by utilising advertising space on a Major Search Engine to publish poems. The result was symptomatic of Censorship, prompting the noteworthy conclusion that:

"One of the most interesting fact is that we have reached a situation in which any word of any language has its price, fluctuating according to the laws of the market."

But behind the price of language, is the cost of using that language to freely express opinion, the toll extracted by capitalist semantics. Language will conform to opinions that do not cause issues for publishers. To oppose the prevailing orthodoxy is to invite the gatekeepers to extract their price, as discovered by many sites that have run afoul of arbitrarily-enforced "rules" employed by major e-publishing and e-services corporations. There is no way of highlighting censorship that is not adversarial, if one believes in free expression: to be silent is to consent. Put your capitalism where your words belong, or take your chances with dissent.

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