Applying statistical analysis to Big Pun's rhyme schemes to compose Sci-Fi DIY fractal fictions.
Abstract: In a dystopian parallel universe the American public is becoming ominously literate, suddenly preferring to consume elegantly composed texts as opposed to watching grown men play videogames on smartphones. In this series of novels (PRC2OHM being the first), the phenomena of a perhaps criminally erudite electorate is explored via the beleaguered livestreamer Nikolaos Enrique Iglesias and his best friend Curtis, a pansexual porno actor who knows better than anyone how to transcribe spoken words into texts. Forced by apocalyptic market pressures to turn his freeform thoughts into written language, Nikolaos begins to inadvertently construct a sort of mnemonic cartography (for commercial use).
Formats: EXCEL | EBOOK
Concepts: Diagrammatic Subjectivity; Geometric Expressionism; Sal Paradise
Even as an infant child, I've always had a bit of a beef with English grammar. So I've attempted to, over the course of a few "prototypes," create a type of fiction comprised of extended lines and echoes, as opposed to sentences and paragraphs.
In doing so, I felt a cartography was needed. So I repurposed Microsoft Excel from the catacombs of corporate finance as a word processor. The modern novel has incorporated photography (Sebald), but has it really integrated cartography to any meaningful degree?
The concept of the echo was borrowed from Byzantine Middle Eastern microtonal music. For our purposes here, it's a sum of consonance and assonance. These echoes ricochet through the extended line to approach 1:1 self-similarity (i.e. 1 echo for every 1 syllable). Each line contains echoes that equal, say, 75% or more of the syllables in the line, creating a kind of fractal prose.
These echoes, which in the original texts are designated by [brackets], rip apart the extended line, dividing single words and even syllables into multiples.
Microsoft Excel is repurposed specifically to map out said echoes pulling apart the words and syllables to create new fragmented wholes, using the TEXTSPLIT and Conditional Formatting functions of the program.
The fractal novel is a recycle bin repurposing the Echo from Byzantine Middle Eastern microtonal music and Microsoft Excel from the banality of corporate finance.
It consists of (3) versions of the text:
01. The Original Text: [Bracketed] with Echoes (the original source document)
1A. The Legible Text: Derived via Ctrl+H for Legibility (read like any other work of fiction)
1B. The Cartographic Text: Derived via TEXTSPLIT for Cartography (a diagrammatic map)
From a purely capitalist perspective, I think that's a great value!
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