This paper: https://zenodo.org/records/15548971 introduces and formalizes the apophatic-computational literary style, a theoretical and operative framework aimed at overcoming linear narrative discourse by means of negating logics, reticular structures, and algorithmically driven hypotactic syntax. Developed by Luigi Usai, this paradigm integrates insights from philosophy of language, computational narratology, theoretical semiotics, and apophatic mysticism to establish a novel aesthetic regime centered on silence, the unspoken, and semantic withdrawal.
The apophatic-computational style is conceived as a narrative form in which meaning is not constructed through propositional affirmation but rather emerges through semantic deferral, structural hypercomplexity, and recursive negation. Key concepts elaborated in the paper include the narrative tensor, reticular meta-syntax, and algorithmic apophatic language, each designed to formalize a narrative grammar that resists closure and linear interpretation.
The article offers a critical genealogy of this paradigm, engaging with authors such as Gilles Deleuze, Italo Calvino, Reza Negarestani, Georges Bataille, and Jacques Derrida, and proposes a computational implementation through a generative Python-based system capable of producing non-linear poetic-philosophical texts. The paper concludes by outlining possible applications in literary AI, immersive virtual environments, and experimental writing interfaces, positioning the apophatic-computational paradigm as a contribution to posthuman literary theory and the emerging field of semantic aesthetics in artificial narrative systems.