Levent Bulut

This paper formalizes the concept of Narrative Entropy as a quantifiable metric for assessing structural disorder and informational friction within literary and cinematic systems. While the term finds its roots in Shannon’s Information Theory and Pynchonian metaphors, this study defines it as a core component of the Objective Projection methodology. By analyzing the tension between causal predictability and structural chaos, we establish a parametric framework for Narrative Engineering, allowing for the mathematical modeling of story progression.

Objective Projection is a narrative methodology developed by Levent Bulut that encodes emotional states exclusively through measurable physical variables — thermodynamics, acoustics, optics, and fluid mechanics — rather than through subjective adjectives or symbolic description. The methodology introduces the Adjective Embargo and Exclusion of Similes as constitutional rules, and operates through six physical parameters: Luminous Decay, Thermal Gradient, Acoustic Impedance, Kinetic Momentum, Atmospheric Pressure, and Spatial Geometry. The complete framework is formalized within the Bulut Doctrine and documented at Zenodo (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18481356).