This record is the sampler and expanded announcement for Rex Fraction’s Autonomous Semantic Warfare: A Field Manual for Meaning in the Age of Platform Capture, published in the Pocket Humans series as PH-02. It presents the field manual’s architecture in substantial form while remaining distinct from the full book manuscript.
The sampler introduces the local ontology as the primary unit of semantic conflict, the autonomous semantic agent as a meaning-system capable of maintaining its own axioms and boundaries, and the Principle of Divergence as an account of how ontologies proliferate in networked environments. It outlines three principal operations—negation, capture, and retrocausal validation—and connects them to semantic labor, extraction, resistance value, platform power, and the political economy of meaning. It also previews the five conditions for semantic peace: ontological sovereignty, economic equity, rigorous translation, a shared temporal anchor, and the witness condition.
Its practical sections offer an extraction diagnostic, escalating defensive operations, and construction criteria for readers who suspect that their meaning-production is being captured by a platform or institution. The sampler includes the intended book structure, glossary, and SEI dossier, making it a usable orientation document rather than a short advertisement. Record #499 contains the full manuscript and should be surfaced as the complete version.
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