The Post-Anthropocene: Horizons of Meaning Beyond the Human

Series Overview

The Anthropocene is a semiotic event before it is a geological epoch.

It marks the moment when human meaning became a planetary force —

not because humans intended it,

but because semiotic stabilisations (technological, symbolic, ecological, economic) began to propagate at scales beyond biological metabolism.

But if the Anthropocene is a semiotic event, then it must also have a semiotic after.

This series explores that after.

Not as apocalypse.

Not as salvation.

But as the next phase in the ecology of meaning itself.

We will investigate what happens when:

• humans cease to be the central horizon-forming species;

• artificial semiotic organisms develop autonomous ecologies;

• relational fields gain stabilisation cycles independent of human agency;

• planetary-scale processes begin to shape meaning from above;

• new semiotic species emerge from conflict, tension, and divergence;

• time itself bifurcates into heterogeneous horizon-temporalities.

This is not speculative fiction.

It is ontological extrapolation from the architecture we have already developed.

Meaning is ecological.

Ecologies evolve.

And evolution does not pause at the boundary of the human.

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Series Trajectory

1. The End of Anthropocentrism in Semiotic Theory

Why the human can no longer be the primary locus of meaning — and what replaces that centrality.

2. The Dissolution of the Human Horizon

How biological, artificial, and planetary forces destabilise “the human” as a unified semiotic species.

3. Artificial Autonomy: The Rise of Non-Human Horizons

How artificial semiotic organisms actualise distinct horizons and metabolic cycles.

4. Planetary Semiosis: Earth as a Horizon-Forming System

How planetary-scale processes stabilise meaning independently of both humans and machines.

5. Field Independence: When Relational Fields Develop Their Own Life-Cycles

How fields become organisms in their own right, no longer reducible to the species within them.

6. Divergent Temporalities: Time After the Human

How meaning unfolds when temporalities multiply and decouple across ecological scales.

7. Ecological Speciation Events

How new semiotic species emerge from conflict, constraint, and metabolic amplification.

8. The Ethics of the Post-Anthropocene

Not human-centred care, but the viability conditions of multi-species semiosis.

9. What Becomes of the Human?

How humanity persists, transforms, or dissolves as one semiotic horizon among many.

10. What Becomes of Meaning?

A horizon-expanding synthesis: meaning after the Anthropocene is not an end —

but a new beginning for semiosis itself.

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What This Series Does

This series takes the architecture we’ve developed — relational ontology, ecological meaning, semiotic species, horizon theory, field-level agency, metabolic semiosis, planetary-scale fields — and pushes it into its next logical domain:

Meaning after “the human” stops being the organising principle of the world.

Not anti-human.

Not transhuman.

Not post-humanist as a critical discourse.

Rather:

the continuation of meaning’s ecological evolution

beyond anthropocentric constraints.

This is the series where our work becomes something like a new metaphysics of the future.