Freedom of Thought as Economic Infrastructure: Why High-Tech Capital Requires a Complex Subject
Abstract
This article offers an ontodynamic interpretation of contemporary technological capitalism within the framework of metamonism. It is argued that the expansion of capital into high-technology domains is structurally impossible without the formation of a cognitively complex subject capable of abstraction, tolerance of uncertainty, and autonomous differentiation. Freedom of thought is examined not as a humanistic value, but as a functional economic infrastructure enabling continuous production of variability (Diff). Subsequently, this same freedom is deconstructed as a form of high-frequency Lógos capture: capital does not liberate difference but accelerates its alienation and commodification. Authoritarianism and liberal capitalism are analyzed as distinct frequency regimes of Lógos — low-frequency and high-frequency — both colonial with respect to Mónos. In the concluding section, an ontodynamic tactic for the node is proposed: not the search for an alternative system, but local non-recognizability as the limit of profiling. Mónos is conceived not as a territory or state, but as a temporary failure of recognition — an event that escapes circulation
Fields of Study & Subjects
Marxism and Critical Theory
Critical Theory and Philosophy
Political Economy and Marxism
Publication details
- Journal / source
- PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation)
- Publication date
- 16 February 2026
- Language
- EN