THE CAPITAL OPERATOR STACK AND THE UNIVERSITY: Toward a Semantic Economy of Knowledge Production

"THE CAPITAL OPERATOR STACK AND THE UNIVERSITY" is a 2,547-word archive work by Johannes Sigil, a heteronym within the Dodecad system of the Crimson Hexagonal Archive, dated 2026-01-09. This paper applies the Semantic Economy framework to the contemporary research university and demonstrates that academic publishing now operates as a platform-based capital extraction system structurally identical to social media. The work is classified under the GOVERNANCE semantic family within the Crimson Hexagonal Archive. It was removed from Zenodo on June 19, 2026 and is preserved through Alexanarch.