The Anomalous Superconsciousness That Writes: Mystery, Opacity, and Algorithmic Textuality in Contemporary Minifiction

Abstract

The emergence of generative artificial intelligence has significantly transformed the modes of production, circulation, and reading of contemporary minifiction. This article examines how the extreme brevity of minifiction intertwines with current imaginaries of mystery, particularly those associated with quantum physics, dark energy, cryopreservation, and computational models of language. From a genealogical perspective, it traces writing machines from twentieth-century combinatorial devices to contemporary generative systems to show how they introduce a form of uncertainty that affects authorship, the stability of meaning, and interpretation. The article further proposes the concept of the sixth literary finger (Morano Urís, 2023) to identify anomalies characteristic of AI-generated minifiction, visible in specific syntactic dislocations, improbable associations, and reiterations. Through the analysis of several original algorithmic minifictions, it argues that contemporary minifiction constitutes a narrative space of superposition in which technical opacity, human intervention, and the unstable openness of language converge.