The key is the apparatus that decides what counts, the accumulated capitals—economic, symbolic, social—that determine which texts enter the circuits of recognition and which remain structurally invisible regardless of their content. The gatekeepers of form, of label, of category: the journals indexed in Web of Science, themselves increasingly owned by investment funds for whom publishing is simply another asset class; the rankings that convert intellectual labour into competitive positioning; the citation economies that measure value through exchange rather than use; the academic ladder that requires passage through hoops designed not to test thought but to test willingness to submit to the apparatus itself. The key is precisely not the technical capacity of crawlers, bots, or language models, however sophisticated their architecture or extensive their training.
