Twice, again: Virentis: Bounded (Un)Supervision

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This short paper explores the creative possibilities of working accross computational infrastrcuture, tradtitional story telling and local large language models. In summary:

Twice, again: Virentis sits inside a wider canon—Twice, again—a 50,000-word novella written without revision, in a form of automatic writing bounded only by a pre-set chapter timeline. That text is uncurated by design. It becomes the source material for Virentis, but not directly: it's first fragmented through a set of distant reading methods—parts-of-speech extraction, frequency mapping, keyword concordance—producing a meta-canon of extracted material that can be recombined in different configurations.