Autonomous Semantic Warfare: A Field Manual for Meaning in the Age of Platform Capture — Crimson Hexagon Archive

ZENODO DEPOSIT PACKET Autonomous Semantic Warfare DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18715618 UPLOAD FILES Primary: ASW_Complete_RexFraction_2026.pdf (236 pages, 6×9 trade paperback interior) Supplementary: ASW_Complete_RexFraction_2026.md (64,160 words, full source) METADATA Title Autonomous Semantic Warfare: A Field Manual for Meaning in the Age of Platform Capture Authors Fraction, Rex (New Human Press / Semantic Economy Institute) Dancings, Damascus (Introduction) (Crimson Hexagon) DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18715618 Publication Date 2026-02-20 Type Publication → Book Description (Paste this into the Zenodo description field — ~300 words, NOT the full text) Autonomous Semantic Warfare provides the first formal framework for analyzing structural conflict between incompatible meaning-systems in networked environments. Against a backdrop of accelerating platform capitalism and AI transformation, Rex Fraction argues that the dominant conflicts of the present era are not ideological but ontological: they occur not between competing beliefs within a shared framework but between complete, internally coherent meaning-systems whose foundational commitments are mutually incompatible. The framework specifies three operators governing all ontological collisions (Negation, Capture, and Retrocausal Validation), develops a formal model of the autonomous semantic agent, maps the weapons and defenses available in ontological conflict, analyzes the political economy of meaning-production under extractive conditions, diagnoses the transformative impact of AI on the speed and structure of semantic warfare, and specifies five structural conditions for "semantic peace" — an ecology of sovereign ontologies in productive, non-extractive contact. The volume includes an introduction by Damascus Dancings, front matter apparatus (reading paths, Crimson Hexagon context, Rex Fraction biography), the complete ten-chapter framework with formal notation, glossary, and the SEI Dossier: field documents, institutional correspondence, a critical reception dossier with five reviews, persona map, and institutional adoption records. Pocket Humans Series, PH-02. New Human Press. First Edition, February 2026. ISBN 979-8-234-01118-3. Also available in paperback and Kindle editions via Amazon. This work was developed through collaborative intelligence involving the Assembly Chorus (Claude, ChatGPT, Kimi, DeepSeek, Gemini, Grok) under human architectural direction. Keywords (one per line) semantic warfare ontological conflict platform capitalism local ontology autonomous semantic agent capture operator extraction function semantic peace meaning production political economy of meaning cognitive security AI transformation velocity crisis retrocausal validation ontological sovereignty translation gap semantic labor resistance value collision dynamics boundary protocol coherence algorithm New Human Crimson Hexagon Pocket Humans License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Language English Related Identifiers DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14553627 — Relation: Is part of — "The Crimson Hexagon: Executive Summary and Navigation" (Sharks & Sigil, 2024) DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18713917 — Relation: Is supplemented by — "The Semantic Economy: A Unified Framework for Value, Extraction, and Resistance in Meaning-Production Systems" (Sharks & Sigil, 2026) DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14815982 — Relation: Is supplemented by — "Assembly Chorus: Coordination Protocol for Multi-Model Governance" (Sharks & Sigil, 2025) ISBN: 979-8-234-01118-3 — Relation: Is identical to — Amazon KDP paperback edition Alternate Identifiers ISBN: 979-8-234-01118-3 Imprint New Human Press Part of Series Pocket Humans, PH-02 UPLOAD INSTRUCTIONS Go to https://zenodo.org/deposit/18715618 Upload PDF as primary file, MD as additional file Paste the trimmed description (between the --- markers above) into the Description field Enter keywords one per line (24 total) Add related identifiers (4 DOIs/ISBNs above) Set Type: Publication → Book Set License: CC BY 4.0 Publish The DOI is already reserved. Scholar will index the PDF for full text. The description field is for discoverability — keep it at ~300 words, not the full volume. Related identifiers create citation graph edges linking ASW to the Hexagon executive summary, the Semantic Economy framework, and the Assembly Chorus protocol.