Paradoxism as a Trans-Historical Meta-System

Abstract

Paradoxism is an avant-garde literary/artistic movement centered on contradictions, absurdities, antinomies, deviations of sense, upside-down interpretations etc. as creative principles. The movement spans literature, art, philosophy, even science, and it aims to challenge conventional thinking and express the complexity and contradictions of reality. Paradoxism is examined here not merely as an avant-garde literary movement, but as a trans-historical literary meta-system grounded in contradiction as a productive aesthetic principle, initiated by Smarandache in 1980. Drawing upon paraconsistent and neutrosophic logic, this paper argues that Paradoxism operates beyond Modernism and Postmodernism by formalizing paradox as both method and meaning. Through comparative analysis with major literary movements, logical axiomatization, and conceptual diagrammatic models, Paradoxism is shown to function as a universal operator acting upon literature itself. Rather than resolving inconsistency, Paradoxism preserves and intensifies it, allowing meaning and non-meaning to coexist. The paper concludes by extending Paradoxism into contemporary theory and artificial intelligence, positioning it as a generative framework for future literary and computational creativity. Below is a concise comparison with other movements, highlighting key contrasts.