0523 What is the inner movement of capital?

0524 My associations of Santner’s argument to the category-based nested form tell a story.

0525 Within the organization tier, capital (money) flows upwards, towards the assessors. Objects^org flows downwards, towards the lacking passive soul, underlying the flesh.

0526 Money on the organization tier corresponds to glory on the society tier.

Purpose (or greed) on the organization tier matches livingness on the society tier.

Objects^org in the society tier contextualize institutional missions in the organization tier.

Thus, doxological acclamations that once extolled the king’s sublime body now acclaim whatever money can buy.  Plus, the most sublime commodity (and the one with the highest price) comes with an institutional message.

This commodity-associated message, in turn, invigorates the passive soul (which, impossibly, cannot be trusted on its own).

The message gives the passive soul identity.

0527 How can the passive soul be declared impossible?

Isn’t the passive soul the organ that responds to motion?

0528 Thomas Hobbes formulated one answer in the Leviathan, published when early modern mercantilism was replacing the late medieval theology of the dual body of the king.

Hobbes claimed that the passive soul could only properly respond to physical motion.

Physical motion leads to sensible reckoning.  Immaterial motion, the very stuff that Santner isolates, produces phantasms that are not sensible.

The passive soul should respond to physical motion, but not immaterial motion.

This explains why the lacking in the passive soul replaces the inoperative active soul in the content-level actuality_2aB of the organization tier.

0529 Ironically, in evolutionary history, the human passive soul evolved to sense the immaterial (or relational) aspects of a situation.  Humans are attuned to relationships.  We intuitively feel changes in relationships.

Humans focus on the hidden causes accounting for observed events.  Humans sense more than what is apparent to a disinterested observer.

0530 Thus, the so-called impossible or lacking passive soul is really a selective soul, responsive only to physical motion and not to relational changes.

0531 No wonder modern theory focuses on political organizational objectives (on the society tier) and economic commodities (on the organization tier).

In the society tier, organizational objectives go into the potential for biopower.  Biopower values, in turn, fetishize busy-ness.

In the organization tier, commodities carry an organizational object.  This objective contextualizes the abstract material that informs price.  Supplemented value virtually situates the buyer, whose passive soul is incomplete, because it only senses physical motion, not relational motion.

An institutional message descends, like a golden egg from a fabled goose, with every purchase.  A purpose-filled abstract material enters the emptiness of the secular soul, providing it with purpose and identity.

The blind acquire eyes to see.

0532 What does this imply?

The immanence of the organization tier has become transcendent.

0533 Marx projected a theology from the society tier onto the organization tier.

0534 What did the projection subsequently produce?

It produced commodities tied to objects^org, the actualities of infrasovereign religions.

Here is the society tier of the modern and postmodern political economy:

Take a look at the descent of livingness.

It proceeds from sovereign-level biopower to a content-level object^org.  It does so in a path that incorporates the organization tier.

0535 Why?

The organization tier serves as a screen for a projection from the society tier. 

True believers testify to the validity this projection.

In doing so, they become citizens^Marat.

0536 Santner quotes a passage from Marx’s Capital.

0537 Here is how I would express this passage:

The money-commodity-money nature of the market transaction powers a valorization of money on the assessment and corporation levels of the organization tier.  The valorization of money fuels the transfer of biopower values to the incomplete (materialist) passive soul of the buyer.

0538 Money goes up.

Messages, material abstractions, the stuff of object^org, go down.

0539 This is how the commodity fetish and surplus value fill the coal box powering the locomotion of Marxist righteousness.

0540 Here is how the flow upwards and downwards looks in the model of the 3-tier system.

0541 Glory ascends in the society tier.  Money ascends in the organization tier.

Livingness (not living well, but barely living) flows down the society tier.  A message-laden object^org intrinsic to each commodity flows down in the organization tier.

0542 To Santner, the doxological acclamations devoted to the king’s sublime body were transubstantiated into advertisements, promoting social discipline (in the society tier) and subliminal market discipline (in the organization tier).

0543 The House of God has been emptied.  It has been painted out.  It is only a blank space within the circulation of power and money.

0544 Similarly, the passive soul of the person has been reduced to a potential that only senses obvious and physical motion.

The motion of the spirit, especially the Holy Spirit, is immaterial.

We cannot physically detect the wind moving over the waters.

0545 Can modern entertainment fill the void?

Can public opinion surveys substitute for acclamations of glory?

Can televised news present its apparent motions in such a way that the naive individual will witness the organizational objectives projected into its spectacles?

Or, will the individual need to be directly indoctrinated?

0546 These are the practical concerns of the busy elites who guard the blankness painted above the corpse of Marat and who covet the jouissance of citizen^regular.