Communication and the Fragility of Social Reproduction; Toward a Theory of Communal Eventuation

Author Ben Afsharian Independent Researcher Newmarket, Ontario, Canada Email: afsharian12@gmail.com Abstract (150–200 words) This paper argues that communication must be understood as a constitutive dimension of social reproduction rather than as secondary mediation. Extending Marx’s circulation formula (M–C–M′), the paper introduces a parallel communicative circuit (M–S–M′) to foreground subject formation as a necessary condition of accumulation. Under contemporary rentier capitalism, accumulation increasingly depends upon expectation, anticipation, and symbolic alignment, intensifying the centrality of communicative reproduction. Drawing on Hegel’s account of contradiction, Badiou’s ontology of the event, Turner’s concepts of liminality and communitas, and Žižek’s theory of ideology, the paper develops the concept of communal eventuation: the transitional interval in which communicative reproduction falters, dialectical mediation suspends, and provisional collective articulation emerges. The argument situates communication at the intersection of political economy, cultural theory, and social ontology, suggesting that crises of capitalism first appear as disruptions in subject reproduction before consolidating institutionally. Keywords Communication; Social Reproduction; Subject Formation; Rentier Capitalism; Event; Liminality; Dialectical Arrest; Political Economy