Autonomous Semantic Warfare — Expanded Announcement and Sampler is a call for papers and announcement by Rex Fraction and Damascus Dancings, deposited 20 February 2026 — the second volume in the Pocket Humans series from New Human Press.
Subtitled A Field Manual for Meaning, it carries the Damascus Dancings introduction, the complete opening sections, and instructions on how to read the book. The pairing of voices is characteristic: Fraction is the archive's combative register and Dancings its epistolary one, so a field manual introduced by a letter-writer sets tactics inside an address.
Autonomous semantic warfare names the archive's account of conflict at the meaning layer — where entities are established, disputed, erased and restored by systems acting without direct human instruction at each step. It is one of the concepts the Capture Registry indexes in its frameworks section, and the announcement functions simultaneously as a publication notice and as a recruitment document for a research programme.