Study 109: The Unasked Question Was Always Structural: Denise Ferreira da Silva, the Kantian Program, and the Affective Architecture of Liberal Capital

The Post-Luxury Conceptual Functional Art (PLCFA) framework directly dismantles the historical, post-Enlightenment fiction that separates intellect from affect, framing this Kantian bifurcation not as a mere philosophical inheritance but as the core operational grammar of liberal capital. For generations, the figure of the public intellectual functioned as an authorized switchboard within legacy media’s affective infrastructure, carefully translating raw social affect, grief, rage, and collective aspiration, into sanitized, institutionalized discourse that the political field could safely acco