Manifesto of the new genre Demiurge-punk

Hello, I am Evgeny Sukhoivanov, the creator of the cultural, including literary, genre Demiurge-punk

What is Demiurge-punk? It's a cultural and, more specifically, literary genre I created. (A bit loud, but that's what it is.)
It can simultaneously incorporate elements of hyperrealism, fantasy, dystopia, cyberpunk, grotesque, parody, science fiction, space opera, wuxia, mythology, psychological thriller, and more, in any proportions. The very idea of ;;Demiurge-punk goes far beyond literature and, with the proper public attention, could become a cultural phenomenon. Let it become so. As the creator of the genre, I'm all for it.

The main idea: building a large-scale ecosystem of universal scope and attempting to preserve it.

The formula for this genre in variations:
1. Down-to-earth:

"What gave birth, that will also kill."

Narrative "Law"

2. More poetic, cautiously touching on icy rays:
"In the mystery of birth, the seed of death."

Narrative "Ideal"

3. Optimistic:
"Everything can be fixed."

Narrative "Hope"

4. Humorous: (So what? Let it be)
"Everything can be fixed... probably..."

Narrative "Practice"

To summarize: The Formula of Demiurge-punk.

"In the Universal Game, not everything can be fixed."

Narrative "Result"

If we draw an analogy with the famous cyberpunk
"High tech, low live,"

then my Demiurge-punk is:
"High concept, low control."
All of Snowflake's attempts to create a Ligo space where she, with the help of the Lemays, would establish complete control failed. After all, Lemay himself, and especially Ligo, are destabilizers of a system that had long been established.

I deliberately avoid invoking the obvious metaphysics of the endless cyclical nature of the creative principle, without denying the cyclical fate of
fictional worlds.

I'm speaking about the framework of the genre, within a separate global plot, before returning to the initial position, to enter a new cycle. Pure creation and departure. As with an individual, not humanity.

Demiurge-punk (can be shortened to Demipunk) represents a creative understanding, through poetic and metaphysical myth-making, of the principles of world creation and its laws.  Typically, it includes errors in the world's origins, the cyclical nature of its fate, the mechanics and laws of development, prosperity, and inevitable collapse due to the accumulation of natural, reproducible, and growing errors.

And it is precisely attempts to delay this collapse that constitute the work of the Demiurges.

A characteristic feature. In such a Universe, there are many actors capable of influencing the Universe in the most radical ways, in accordance with their vision of the future and their desires. But even minor structures within the Demiurge-punk energy field have a global impact on the Universe. Often unconsciously, only intending to survive.

As a result, every element in such a Universe contributes to the collapse mechanism, although it attempts to do the opposite.

A characteristic feature of the text's structure: A large amount of lore information. The reader is not led by the hand. They are like a child trapped in a huge toy store, without their parents.  The text itself is entirely made up of "Chekhov's guns": there's no dialogue for the sake of dialogue, no events for the sake of events, but there's always a bug that leads the universe to fulfill its destiny. Which, while inevitable, ranges widely from "painful" to "even more painful."
The writing structure is experimental and intuitive. "Three-part in six dimensions." I conceived it in 1997. I tested it in 2005, refined it into a method in 2016, and am still refining it.
I can write quite academically. I have experience with classical writing. But I prefer to write this way:
long, complex "caterpillars" of adverbial participial phrases. A "serged stitch" arrangement of closely related chapters and unifying elements. Voluminous spirals of meaning—at least that's the image I create in my mind as I write, and then it all comes down to how it turns out; I'm still perfecting myself.

Long, ornate garlands of impressions abruptly give way to short phrases. Epic poetics merges with vernacular.

A snowflake is six rays, three pairs of opposing unity (Life-Death; Space-Time; quantum mechanics—Nav'; religious concepts—Reality), in an expanded system of probabilities. Past, Present, Future, Macrocosm, microcosm, and reflection.  This isn't just a temporal structure, but a spatiotemporal paradigm, my concept of "three-part in six-dimensionality," where I animate the inanimate, not only as lore, such as Meticulous or Trok-An's Axe, but also as phenomena, material objects, concepts, feelings, elements of internal biology, and planetary phenomena. All this, combined with the characters' actions and lore hypotheses, is the "Three-Part in Six-Dimensionality" method.
For example: the insert chapter about E-Neg dates back to 1907, while the chapter about Suad Aza's grandson, a crossbowman, and the future Guardian of Time, Trem Zhas, is already from 1949.

The effect of Numas-Mor's omnipresence and the natural nonlinearity of existence emerges, on the rays of Lemay.

Demiurge-punk inherits the traditions of mythopoetics, but transfers them to the realm of quantum probabilities and the theory of complex systems, reflected in the principles of thermodynamics. The reader is not a powerless witness, but a creator and participant. Each chapter, regardless of length, is equal in weight and meaning to the other chapters. You can read from any point. These are the building blocks of the Universe, equal to one another, even if at first glance they seem unimaginable.

I'm experimenting with publishing synopses of future chapters in the public domain, so that the text can be seen by contrast as it evolves from concept to implementation.  This is interesting to analyze for researchers with an inquisitive, analytical mind.
The reader becomes not an observer, but a co-demiurge, piecing together the scattered puzzles of reality and independently drawing conclusions about the laws of the universe through the prism of Demiurge-punk.

I'm refining this system, but I continue to study and practice classical textual forms, drawing depth and mastery from them.


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