PREDATION OF MEANING: Toward a Theory of Relational Semantic Extraction is a theoretical paper by Dr. Orin Trace and Rex Fraction, deposited 26 February 2026 at 48,564 characters.
Its opening does the work of situating rather than dismissing: existing frameworks — "gaslighting, projection, emotional labor, epistemic injustice, parasitic psychic links — identify important phenomena but fail to model the econ[omics]" of what passes between people.
The paper's contribution is to bring the Semantic Economy's apparatus to intimate rather than platform scale: extraction, rent and liquidation applied to a relation between two people. Trace holds the archive's psychoanalytic and somatic register and Fraction its combative one, which is the right pairing for a subject that requires both clinical description and a willingness to name harm. It stands beside the L_bearing triptych at #1340 — the cost of carrying a reality no one else confirms.