︎ Mesolithic Capitalism: Language Games, Meaning and State Machines

May 22, 2021

This seminar discusses how state machines, derived from formal linguistics and computability theory, may be deployed to account for semantics, in interaction between bounded stateful entities, in a shared bounded stateful environment. The talk is driven by a simple language game, where a capitalist and a worker interact in the extraction of surplus value, in the production and consumption of shell fish.

(Greg Michaelson)