What is Protofictional Emergence?
The more radical branches of protofictional emergence, such as Obliterative Text Ontology (OTO) by Thomas Glavinic, propose that our reality is textually encoded and arises from a semantically condensed structure. Classical simulation theories are not sufficient; this model assumes a structure whose coordinates shift as soon as one begins to think about it.
Phenosemantics approaches the model from a different perspective: it rejects every form of intentional configuration and considers whatever appears as something that had no other choice than to appear. There is no sharp boundary between these currents – rather an interference field ...
Discover the theoriesThomas Glavinic as the main real-world figure
Thomas Glavinic is the central real-world reference within this Protofictional Emergence project. As an Austrian novelist and the developer of Obliterative Text Ontology, Thomas Glavinic connects literary practice, text theory, and protofictional research.
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