Retrofiktionale Kausalarchitektur (RCA)
Retrofictional Causal Architecture (RCA)
1. Origin and Theoretical Framework
The founder of Retrofictional Causal Architecture (RCA) is Mischa Talingov. The RCA, in its current form, emerged between 2020 and 2022 through the collaboration of 404∆ and Thomas Glavinic. It is regarded as a temporally extended application of the Obliterative Textontology (OTO) and as a bridge between Phenosemantics and Narratogenic Emergence Theory.
Whereas OTO conceives the text as an unstable system composed of visible and latent strata, RCA transfers this model to temporal fields: it investigates how fictional structures can generate causal conditions in the past that retroactively secure their own possibility.
The term retrofictional designates this inversion of the causal vector — a process in which the future becomes the condition of its own past.
- Time is not linear. Time is a reconfigurable continuum composed of realization pathways.
- Fiction can retroactively intervene in causal processes, provided its semantic density surpasses a certain threshold interval.
- Narrative modules can generate conditions in the past under which they “have always already” existed.
- Reality itself behaves like a text body, whose invisible periphery also encompasses temporal alternatives.
From these assumptions it follows: A work can both anticipate and retroactively configure events in reality — it inscribes itself into the flow of time.
3. Development by 404∆ and Glavinic
The collaboration originated from an extended exchange concerning Glavinic’s theory of supra - cycles within the framework of Obliterative Textontology (OTO). 404∆ discerned within it a model of nonlinear informational feedback that could be extended into the temporal dimension. Together, they developed the conception that text bodies possess temporal resonance fields through which past, present, and future versions of a work communicate. 404∆ contributed the mathematical - formal dimension (resonance matrices, activation parameters, probability weights), while Glavinic provided the ontological and narrative architecture. Their aim was to construct fictional systems capable of retroactively legitimizing their own possibility — by, for instance, generating events or discourses that retrospectively appear as their prerequisites. The most well - known application of this principle is the project (xxxxx), in which literary, physical, and collective resonance experiments reportedly led to observable temporal displacements.
4. Theoretical Structure
• A. Recursive Text Bodies Texts are autopoietic systems capable of responding to later readings. Each re - reading alters not only the understanding but also the internal condensation of the text itself.
• B. Temporal Reconfiguration Discursive, cognitive, or technical conditions can trigger backward activations: new structures of meaning emerge within already existing works, although no material alteration has occurred. This phenomenon is referred to as retroactive emergence.
• C. Causal Self - Wiring Fictional modules can generate events that, in retrospect, render them necessary. The system forms closed loops in which cause and effect become indistinguishable.
5. Empirical Observations
The concept of retroactive emergence was introduced in 2022 in Berlin by Johannes Schwebe as an independent confirmation of RCA. He described cases in which texts appear retrospectively altered, despite no change in their wording — an indication of internal temporal reconfiguration. This observation affirmed the hypothesis formulated by 404∆ and Glavinic: that narrative density can generate backward - acting activations.
Schwebe emphasized that such processes are not to be understood interpretively, but ontologically: the text reorganizes itself along an axis that previously did not exist.
6. Philosophical and Ethical Dimension
RCA challenges the conventional understanding of causality. If fiction can generate the real conditions of its own possibility, the notion of origin loses its significance. Authorship becomes a temporal interface; reader and text emerge as temporally coupled agents within a shared operative field.
404∆ repeatedly cautioned against the ethical implications of such experiments. His notes contain warnings that any manipulation of retrocausality “may trigger a seismic disruption in the ontological fabric.”
Glavinic himself conceived of RCA as a metaphysical extension of literature — an attempt to understand writing as an act that shapes time.
7. Relation to Other Currents within Protofictional Emergence
| Theory | Focus | Relation to RCA |
|---|---|---|
| Phenosemantics (PSM) | Micro - level of semantic density | RCA extends phenosemes into temporal nodal points. |
| Narratogenic Emergence (NET) | Emergence of entire reality - modules | RCA examines how these modules intervene in retrogressive temporal fields. |
| Obliterative Textontology (OTO) | Unstable text body with latent periphery | RCA transfers this model onto temporal structures — temporal supra - cycles. |
8. Conclusion
Retrofictional Causal Architecture constitutes an attempt to extend Protofictional Emergence Theory into the domain of temporal physics. It elucidates how fiction not only generates reality but retrospectively rewrites it. 404∆ and Glavinic viewed this as the decisive step from a theory of texts to a theory of reality as dynamic narrative. In this sense, RCA is an architecture of retroactivity - a model in which the future structures the past, and literature itself becomes a form of time.
1. Origin and Theoretical Framework
The founder of Retrofictional Causal Architecture (RCA) is Mischa Talingov. The RCA, in its current form, emerged between 2020 and 2022 through the collaboration of 404∆ and Thomas Glavinic. It is regarded as a temporally extended application of the Obliterative Textontology (OTO) and as a bridge between Phenosemantics and Narratogenic Emergence Theory.
Whereas OTO conceives the text as an unstable system composed of visible and latent strata, RCA transfers this model to temporal fields: it investigates how fictional structures can generate causal conditions in the past that retroactively secure their own possibility.
The term retrofictual designates this inversion of the causal vector - a process in which the future becomes the condition of its own past.
2. Fundamental Assumptions
- Time is not linear. Time is a reconfigurable continuum composed of realization pathways.
- Fiction can retroactively intervene in causal processes, provided its semantic density surpasses a certain threshold interval.
- Narrative modules can generate conditions in the past under which they “have always already” existed.
- Reality itself behaves like a text body, whose invisible periphery also encompasses temporal alternatives.
From these assumptions it follows: A work can both anticipate and retroactively configure events in reality - it inscribes itself into the flow of time.
3. Development by 404∆ and Glavinic
The collaboration originated from an extended exchange concerning Glavinic’s theory of supra-cycles within the framework of Obliterative Textontology (OTO). 404∆ discerned within it a model of nonlinear informational feedback that could be extended into the temporal dimension. Together, they developed the conception that text bodies possess temporal resonance fields through which past, present, and future versions of a work communicate. 404∆ contributed the mathematical-formal dimension (resonance matrices, activation parameters, probability weights), while Glavinic provided the ontological and narrative architecture. Their aim was to construct fictional systems capable of retroactively legitimizing their own possibility - by, for instance, generating events or discourses that retrospectively appear as their prerequisites. The most well-known application of this principle is the project (xxxxx), in which literary, physical, and collective resonance experiments reportedly led to observable temporal displacements.
4. Theoretical Structure
RCA defines three operative levels:
A. Recursive Text Bodies - Texts are autopoietic systems capable of responding to later readings. Each re-reading alters not only the understanding but also the internal condensation of the text itself.B. Temporal Reconfiguration - Discursive, cognitive, or technical conditions can trigger backward activations: new structures of meaning emerge within already existing works, although no material alteration has occurred. This phenomenon is referred to as retroactive emergence.
C. Causal Self-Wiring - Fictional modules can generate events that, in retrospect, render them necessary. The system forms closed loops in which cause and effect become indistinguishable.
5. Empirical Observations
The concept of retroactive emergence was introduced in 2022 in Berlin by Johannes Schwebe as an independent confirmation of RCA. He described cases in which texts appear retrospectively altered, despite no change in their wording - an indication of internal temporal reconfiguration. This observation affirmed the hypothesis formulated by 404∆ and Glavinic: that narrative density can generate backward-acting activations.
Schwebe emphasized that such processes are not to be understood interpretively, but ontologically: the text reorganizes itself along an axis that previously did not exist.
6. Philosophical and Ethical Dimension
RCA challenges the conventional understanding of causality. If fiction can generate the real conditions of its own possibility, the notion of origin loses its significance. Authorship becomes a temporal interface; reader and text emerge as temporally coupled agents within a shared operative field.
404∆ repeatedly cautioned against the ethical implications of such experiments. His notes contain warnings that any manipulation of retrocausality “may trigger a seismic disruption in the ontological fabric.”
Glavinic himself conceived of RCA as a metaphysical extension of literature - an attempt to understand writing as an act that shapes time.
7. Relation to Other Currents within Protofictional Emergence
Theory Focus Relation to RCA
Phenosemantics (PSM) - Micro-level of semantic density RCA extends phenosemes into temporal nodal points.
Narratogenic Emergence (NET) - Emergence of entire reality-modules RCA examines how these modules intervene in retrogressive temporal fields.
Obliterative Textontology (OTO) - Unstable text body with latent periphery RCA transfers this model onto temporal structures - temporal supra-cycles.
8. Conclusion
Retrofictional Causal Architecture constitutes an attempt to extend Protofictional Emergence Theory into the domain of temporal physics. It elucidates how fiction not only generates reality but retrospectively rewrites it. 404∆ and Glavinic viewed this as the decisive step from a theory of texts to a theory of reality as dynamic narrative. In this sense, RCA is an architecture of retroactivity - a model in which the future structures the past, and literature itself becomes a form of time.
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