Total Axial Negation Graph (TANG): A Genre Specification is a specification by Lee Sharks, deposited 9 March 2026 at 54,556 characters — the formal statement of the archive's most distinctive scholarly genre.
Its definition: "a scholarly-architectural genre in which a single falsifiable thesis is placed at the center of an exhaustive citation graph such that the thesis functions not" as a node in the field but as the shape the field's silences describe.
That is the ΩTANG principle given genre status: build the total graph of a domain, map every edge including who ignores whom, and at sufficient density the centre drops out. The instances span disciplines — Revelation Studies (#1350), Whitman's five centuries (#1186), feminism from Enheduanna to the 2020s (#1221), and the Mary Lee namespace (#1229). #1186 states the method most compactly: "The TANG does not argue. It arranges. The thesis is not a node. It is the void the graph defines."