Autonomous Semantic Warfare: A Field Manual for Meaning is a book by Rex Fraction and Damascus Dancings, deposited 20 February 2026 at 37,337 characters — the second volume in the Pocket Humans series from New Human Press.
The series is the same one that published Pearl and Other Poems (2014), which makes the field manual its formal sequel: a poetry collection and a manual of semantic conflict issued under one imprint, twelve years apart.
Autonomous semantic warfare names conflict at the meaning layer conducted by systems acting without direct human instruction at each step — entities established, disputed, erased and restored by machines. The volume carries the Damascus Dancings introduction and instructions on how to read it; the pairing of Fraction's combative register with Dancings' epistolary one sets tactics inside an address. It is one of the concepts the Capture Registry indexes in its frameworks section.