{"product_id":"augurnomics-david-s-rogers-9798994424810","title":"Augurnomics: Beyond Borders: First Principles for the Next Geostrategic Order","description":"\u003cp\u003eHumanity 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAugurnomics 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.\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI. THE COMPRESSION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. The New Gravity Wells\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGlobal realignment around economic and strategic mass.\u003cbr\u003eThesis: Platforms and ecosystems replace borders as the core of power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Information Saturation: When Everyone Knows Everything at Once\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUbiquitous knowledge collapses strategic advantage and multiplies cognitive friction.\u003cbr\u003eThesis: In an age of overexposure, attention becomes the battlefield.\u003cbr\u003eReader's Companion: When Meaning Washes Away\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Bio-Sovereignty\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe genetic commons, health data, and the geopolitics of the body.\u003cbr\u003eThesis: Bodies become the new terrain of power and control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII. THE DISSOLUTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. The Liquefaction of Borders\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTerritory, sovereignty, and the disintegration of fixed identity.\u003cbr\u003eThesis: How nationhood dissolves into flows of capital, code, and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Institutional Collapse and Renewal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnd-stage bureaucracy, networked resilience, and new legitimacy.\u003cbr\u003eThesis: As trust erodes, decentralized systems redefine legitimacy.\u003cbr\u003eReader's Companions: Generational Trust in Fracture, Recurrence Machines\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII. THE REFORMATION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. When There Are Too Many People\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe surplus is no longer a cyclical burden; it is a permanent design condition.\u003cbr\u003eThesis: Structural surplus labor reveals a civilizational split in value and purpose.\u003cbr\u003eReader's Companion: Survey of Surplus Populations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Hydro-Legitimacy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScarcity, rights, and the wars for Productive Water.\u003cbr\u003eThesis: Hydrological conflict shapes borders, supply chains, and migration.\u003cbr\u003eReader's Companions: California, the Forgotten Planet, The Mirage Toolkit, Humans Colonizing the Seas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV. THE EXPANSION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. Cybernetic Governance\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNeural interfaces, autonomous systems, and the split in cognition and control.\u003cbr\u003eThesis: The mind becomes infrastructure, and not everyone writes the code.\u003cbr\u003eReader's Companion: The Compiler and the Cone\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9. Forging Arctic Sovereignty on Instability\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClimate Change Is Teaching us How to Govern Amid Collapse.\u003cbr\u003eThesis: The Arctic is a rehearsal space for the coming age of permanent disruption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10. Astro-politics and The Post-Earth Economy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSapien Culture, Continuity, and Sovereignty Beyond the Cradle.\u003cbr\u003eThesis: The next economy unfolds in orbit, beyond Earth, beyond nation-states.\u003cbr\u003eReader's Companions: Chronoeconomics, Our Earliest Interstellar Expeditions, Alpha Centauri Mission Architecture (Technical Fact Sheet)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David S. Rogers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798994424810\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e David Sean Rogers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 450\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.91d","brand":"David S. 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