SemanticHardening names the passage by which provisional language becomes structurally embedded in institutions. Symbolic power, structural coupling, apparatus and data friction converge as a term enters forms, budgets, standards, interfaces and regulations until replacing it disrupts the system itself. The operator distinguishes repetition from fixation and language from implementation.
Lloveras, A. (2026) ‘SemanticHardening’, Socioplastics.
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