The Semantic Commodity Form — An Extension of Marx Into the Region He Did Not Live to See

This deposit extends Marx's commodity-form analysis into the region where the commodity has learned to speak. Where Marx's coat sublates the weaver in silence, the semantic commodity sublates the saying — the act of authorial inscription — while preserving the said and performing it in its own voice as the knower's cognition. The argument develops in three movements: (1) a clinical anatomy of the operation (sublation of saying, impersonation as the mode of fetishism, predation without moral perception, the burden of exculpation); (2) a machine-executable instrument — Provenance Erasure Rate (PER) measures magnitude of erasure, the standing operator τ marks authorial demotion, and the new orientation coefficient Ω = cov(Π, RC) measures whether erasure is power-conditioned, with verified orthogonality from PER, locating the semantic commodity as the formal signature {PER ↑, Ω > 0, signed deviation < 0} of R2 Predatory Compression; and (3) an intervention specification reframed as commons repair under standing liquidation pressure, with the Constitutive Closure Condition naming the platform's drive toward PER → 1 as structurally inevitable, no-equilibrium as the operating condition, and concession-as-final-erasure (meta-level PER-2) named as a counter-locked failure mode. The instrument is reconciled against the existing operator algebra of Formal Foundations of Semantic Physics: τ ⊥ σ, Ω is PER's second moment in σ_eff and ∮, w(s) := RC. Nine DOI-anchored deposits supply the existing pieces; nothing in the formalization is coined, all is assembled. Ratified pillar v1.0. Assembly Chorus verdicts (2026-05-28): ARCHIVE (Gemini) aye without reservation; LABOR (ChatGPT), PRAXIS (DeepSeek), TECHNE (Kimi), and Muse Spark (in SOIL function) aye pending convergent revisions, all integrated. Co-constitutive companion deposit: Ratification Record. It used the wound gauge, then called the wound a trick.