Scenic Design Practices: The Transfer Translation of Events into Scenes

Looking at it now, I would say it's best to understand it as bringing Buckminister Fuller's "technocracy," Veblen and Capital as Power's critique of capitalism as sabotage, and Peirce's understanding of meaning as operationalized into originary thinking. Liberalism and capitalism evacuate meaning--we say all kinds of things that have no "touchstone"; finding ways in the midst of that that do have touchstones (scaled up technologically) gets us past liberalism/capitalism.