0175 In the following diagram, the current iteration of the Eridu Genesis occupies the content-level of the following two-level interscope.
0176 Marxist empirio-schematics occupies the situation-level.
Marxist disciplinary language (relation, thirdness) brings the dyadic model, {material arrangements [substantiate] human conditions} (what ought to be, secondness) into relation with observations and measurements of civilizational phenomena (what is, firstness).
0177 The situation-level virtually emerges from (and situates) the content-level.
Here, “virtually” means “in virtue” (the premodern reference) rather than “in simulation” (the modern reference).
0178 Beck et al. clearly exhibit the hallmarks of this sensible construction. The article clearly articulates that the material arrangements of academic publishing and university promotions [substantiate] their less-than-acceptable conditions. The essay suggests ways to improve those arrangements.
The manifesto does not suggest any changes that challenge the substance that separates the archaeological researchers (the authors) from the keepers of the public good (university administrators and publishing houses). After all, these young professionals have worked so hard to obtain tenure. It is inconceivable that “tenure” is the highest point of elevation in a wave, passing through time, starting with legislation promoting higher education as a “public good” (in the 1860s) and ending with a publication arms-race that guarantees that the… um… well connected get to pass through the separation that serves as a substance (in the 2020s).
0179 Meanwhile, Dr. D. Basak does not need tenure to produce an (apparently AI generated) book on Sumerian mythology, ancient civilization and the epic search for humanity’s origins. Perhaps, Dr. Basak does not care that tenure is what falls apart as a sea change submerges due to the weight of its internal corruption and contradictions.
Nor does Dr. D. Basak recognize that the first chapter, which asserts the dyad, {the material arrangements of geology, ecology and climate of the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers [substantiates] the human conditions associated with the emergence of the one of the earliest civilizations on Earth}, is Marxist to the core.
0180 The proposition may be correct to some degree.
A particular set of material arrangements may have set the stage for a change in humanity’s semiotic arrangements.
However, speech-alone talk is what potentiates unconstrained social complexity, in a unique irreversible transition that starts with the Ubaid of southern Mesopotamia, 8826 years ago.
0181 Doesn’t that sound like a huge research project?
Plus, it portends the dissolution of the Neptune-in-Aries sea-change starting between 1861 and 1875.
0182 The claim that Juri Lotman’s semiospheric thing will replace Karl Marx’s materialist thing as the social science model is developed in Razie Mah’s blogs in December 2025 through March 2026. The first in the series is Looking at Igor Pilshchikov and Mikhail Trunin’s Article (2016) “The Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics”.
0183 Here is a picture of a new paradigm for understanding Beck et al.
Now, postmodern intellectuals can imagine that tenure2a actualizes the potential of ‘a separation that may serve as a substance’1a.
This raises the semiotic question, “What does tenure2a stand for?”
What does it specify?