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Work #653 · Mid

Ficciones

Jorge Luis Borges
1944 · Spanish
Short philosophical fiction · Latin American Modernist / speculative fiction

Borges's 1944 foundational text of modern speculative fiction — labyrinths, libraries, infinities

Attribute Fingerprint

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Attribute Ficciones (Mid)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Plural
Observer · Space Instance Plural
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency None
Observer · Moral Authority Constructed
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

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The forking-paths multiple times.

Space

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The labyrinthine-fictional spaces.

Matter

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The fictional-actual materiality.

Observer

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The reader confronting Borgesian recursion.

Energy

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Energies of speculative fiction.

Information

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Foundational modern speculative-fiction framework.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

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Borges's Ficciones foundational for postmodern literature and contemporary speculative metaphysics.