{ "item_title" : "Augurnomics", "item_author" : [" David S. Rogers "], "item_description" : "Humanity is entering a post-civilizational epoch - a transformation that echoes earlier transitions but surpasses them in scale, simultaneity, and speed. We are not simply rearranging nations or deploying new technologies; we are altering the operating conditions of the species.Augurnomics traces the hidden structure beneath this shift, mapping the forces that bind systems together and the fractures that reveal what comes next. It offers a framework for understanding a world in motion - not as fate, but as a design space still under construction.Table of ContentsI. THE COMPRESSION1. The New Gravity WellsGlobal realignment around economic and strategic mass.Thesis: Platforms and ecosystems replace borders as the core of power.2. Information Saturation: When Everyone Knows Everything at OnceUbiquitous knowledge collapses strategic advantage and multiplies cognitive friction.Thesis: In an age of overexposure, attention becomes the battlefield.Reader's Companion: When Meaning Washes Away3. Bio-SovereigntyThe genetic commons, health data, and the geopolitics of the body.Thesis: Bodies become the new terrain of power and control.II. THE DISSOLUTION4. The Liquefaction of BordersTerritory, sovereignty, and the disintegration of fixed identity.Thesis: How nationhood dissolves into flows of capital, code, and culture.5. Institutional Collapse and RenewalEnd-stage bureaucracy, networked resilience, and new legitimacy.Thesis: As trust erodes, decentralized systems redefine legitimacy.Reader's Companions: Generational Trust in Fracture, Recurrence MachinesIII. THE REFORMATION6. When There Are Too Many PeopleThe surplus is no longer a cyclical burden; it is a permanent design condition.Thesis: Structural surplus labor reveals a civilizational split in value and purpose.Reader's Companion: Survey of Surplus Populations7. Hydro-LegitimacyScarcity, rights, and the wars for Productive Water.Thesis: Hydrological conflict shapes borders, supply chains, and migration.Reader's Companions: California, the Forgotten Planet, The Mirage Toolkit, Humans Colonizing the SeasIV. THE EXPANSION8. Cybernetic GovernanceNeural interfaces, autonomous systems, and the split in cognition and control.Thesis: The mind becomes infrastructure, and not everyone writes the code.Reader's Companion: The Compiler and the Cone9. Forging Arctic Sovereignty on InstabilityClimate Change Is Teaching us How to Govern Amid Collapse.Thesis: The Arctic is a rehearsal space for the coming age of permanent disruption.10. Astro-politics and The Post-Earth EconomySapien Culture, Continuity, and Sovereignty Beyond the Cradle.Thesis: The next economy unfolds in orbit, beyond Earth, beyond nation-states.Reader's Companions: Chronoeconomics, Our Earliest Interstellar Expeditions, Alpha Centauri Mission Architecture (Technical Fact Sheet)", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/899/442/9798994424810_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "19.95", "online_price" : "19.95", "our_price" : "19.95", "club_price" : "19.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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