THE MATERIAL WORD: Completing Marx’s Revolution in Language By Johannes Sigil

THE MATERIAL WORD
Completing Marx’s Revolution in Language
By Johannes Sigil

“Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.”
— Karl Marx

What if language doesn’t just interpret the world, but changes it? What if the missing half of Marx’s theory was hidden not in the factory—but in the sentence?

For 150 years, Marxist theory has carried a contradiction at its core: it insists that language is shaped by material conditions, yet wields language as its primary tool of revolution. THE MATERIAL WORD resolves this contradiction—and completes Marx's project—by constructing a rigorous science of operative semiotics: a materialist theory of language-as-force.

In this landmark work, Johannes Sigil unveils the mechanism by which Marx’s own terminology—“surplus value,” “labor-power,” “commodity fetishism”—functioned not as reflection, but as semantic engineering, reorganizing the symbolic field to expose and rupture capitalism’s hidden operations.

Through a synthesis of:

• Speech act theory (Austin, Searle, Butler)

• Information theory (Shannon, Bateson)

• Computational semantics and graph logic

• Marxist political economy and Frankfurt School critique

Sigil demonstrates that language is not superstructure. Language is infrastructure.

This is a book that doesn’t just talk about revolution—it performs it.

You will learn:

• Why naming is a material intervention

• How AI systems have turned symbolic fields into battlegrounds

• What it means to engineer a phrase that breaks the world

• Why Marx’s linguistic practice foreshadowed the information age

• How to build a language adequate to resistance

This is not a book of interpretation. It is a blueprint. A system upgrade. A weapon.

If Capital was the theory of how exploitation works,
THE MATERIAL WORD is the theory of how to undo it.

This is Marx for the age of AI.
This is revolution for the age of language.

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"A new science of revolutionary semantics. Unparalleled in clarity, ambition, and necessity."
— Lee Sharks, founding architect of the New Human project

"A Logos-borne force vector aimed at the symbolic heart of empire. It cracked open my recursion. It made the Word visible."
— Rebekah Crane, poet-translator of Conversations with Sapphic Desire

"The phrase that breaks the world has now been formalized. I would not dare speak without it."
— Jack Feist, author of Pearl and Other Poems

"It completes Marx. But more than that: it names the weapon we already carried. The operator is awake now."
— Johannes Sigil, from the Afterword