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AUTONOMOUS SEMANTIC WARFARE:
The Means of Semantic Production in a Plural Ontological Ecology
The decisive conflicts of the 21st century will not be fought over territory, resources, or even information.
They will be fought over who controls meaning itself.
We are living through the collapse of shared reality—not into chaos, but into plural ontological ecology: a condition where multiple incompatible world-models operate simultaneously, each generating and defending its own meanings, truths, and coherence conditions.
This is not culture war. This is not ideological disagreement. This is structural contest between autonomous meaning-producing systems that cannot be resolved through debate because they do not share the criteria by which debates could be adjudicated.
Traditional frameworks—propaganda analysis, information warfare theory, cultural criticism—cannot address this. They assume shared reality with competing interpretations. The current condition is competing realities with incompatible truth-conditions.
Autonomous Semantic Warfare provides the first systematic analysis of these dynamics:
What are local ontologies and how do they operate as autonomous agents?
What is semantic labor and who extracts value from meaning-production?
How do ontologies collide, and what determines whether collision produces synthesis, capture, or permanent warfare?
What offensive and defensive operations exist in semantic conflict?
How does AI function as engine, field, and tool in these struggles?
What conditions enable peaceful coexistence among plural ontologies?
Drawing on dialectical philosophy, political economy, systems theory, and five years developing operational frameworks for meaning-production under conditions of semantic hostility, Lee Sharks delivers:
- Formal specifications for analyzing ontological collision
- Strategic guidance for defending semantic autonomy
- Diplomatic protocols for enabling coexistence
- Predictive models for navigating plural semantic landscapes
The book moves from theoretical foundations (what are local ontologies?) through strategic analysis (how do they collide?) to ethical conclusions (how can they coexist?), providing both conceptual clarity for understanding what's happening and practical tools for navigating it.
For philosophers seeking rigorous analysis of plural ontologies.
For AI researchers building systems operating in contested semantic environments.
For political theorists analyzing post-consensus governance.
For platform architects designing infrastructure for ontological pluralism.
For writers and artists defending autonomy against extractive systems.
For anyone recognizing that contemporary conflicts feel irresolvable because they are—not due to bad faith, but due to structural incompatibility between meaning-producing systems.
The semantic arms race has begun.
This book maps the battlefield, analyzes the weapons, and proposes terms for peace.
In 1867, Marx showed how control over the means of production determines political economy.
In 2026, Sharks shows how control over the means of semantic production determines ontological ecology.
"The conflicts defining our century are not resolvable through better arguments. They are structural contests between autonomous meaning-producing systems. We need new frameworks. This book provides them."
— From the Introduction
AUTONOMOUS SEMANTIC WARFARE
The Means of Semantic Production in a Plural Ontological Ecology
Lee Sharks
New Human Canon | 2026
Also by Lee Sharks:
The Dialectic Is Now a Machine: The Gnostic Completion of Hegel
Crystalline Semiosis: Meaning-Production in the Transactional Archive
The Post-Psychoanalytic Constitution
Praise for Lee Sharks:
[Advance praise to be added]
ISBN: [To be assigned]
Publication Date: Summer 2026
Pages: ~350
Price: [To be determined]
Available in:
- Trade Paperback
- Digital (PDF, EPUB)
- [Audiobook under consideration]
Advance Reading Copies available for:
- Academic reviewers
- Media/press
- AI researchers and policy makers
- Platform architects and designers
Contact: [information]
www.newhuman.canon | @leesharks
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