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It analyzes how meaning is produced, circulated, extracted, and liquidated under platform capitalism and generative AI, treating semantic labor and knowledge production as tangible systems of value.Key concepts of the framework include:Semantic Labor & Capital: Just as physical labor creates products, \"semantic labor\" constructs meaning (e.g., ontology engineering, prompting, data building). Platforms extract the value of this labor while externalizing the costs back to the user.The Closed Semantic Economy: A system where AI and platforms filter meaning for utility, legibility, and safety, selecting only the data that serves their own reproduction.Recursive Corpus Hypothesis: A phenomenon where AI-generated summaries persist on indexable URLs and are re-ingested into future training corpora, creating an infinite tunnel of self-referential training data.Semantic Liquidation: The depletion of meaning that occurs when human effort to define reality is redirected toward sustaining platforms or AI systems that cannot sustain the human laborer.Sharks operates the Semantic Economy Institute and the Crimson Hexagonal Archive, which publish formal, DOI-anchored research on maintaining semantic sovereignty and coordinating human-to-human communication independently of traditional, profit-driven financialization models. 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