Autonomous Semantic Warfare: A Field Manual for Meaning in the Age of Platform Capture is a full book manuscript by Rex Fraction and the second volume in the Pocket Humans series. The work formalizes semantic conflict as interaction among local ontologies: structured meaning-systems with axiomatic cores, coherence procedures, boundary protocols, compression rules, labor, and material dependencies.
The field manual develops an Autonomous Semantic Agent model and a large operative vocabulary for semantic conflict. It distinguishes negation from capture, specifies retrocausal validation, and analyzes axiomatic poisoning, coherence jamming, boundary dissolution, conceptual capital, translation gaps, extraction asymmetry, and resistance value. Its political-economic sections extend value-form analysis into semantic labor: who produces meaning, who owns the infrastructure that circulates it, who captures the resulting value, and what kinds of output resist liquidation into platform-compatible summaries.
The book is not limited to diagnosis. It provides defensive and constructive protocols, asks four questions before offensive action, and defines conditions for semantic peace, including exit, sovereignty, economic equity, rigorous translation, shared temporal anchoring, witness, and repair. It treats AI systems, humans, institutions, and archives as differently situated participants in a common semantic ecology without erasing differences of substrate, power, or accountability.
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