#'pataphysics

[wolfcat-hybrid]

New* calendar dropped, what's your birthmonth in the pataphysical year lads

*By new I mean created in 1949

[nedison]

Perception is only a hallucination that is true.

- Alfred Jarry, Days and Nights, bk. IV, ch. 2, "Pataphysics".

[rocket2nowhere]

I bought this Archimedean turd.

[tom-isaacs]

Pataphysical Man - Shaun Gladwell

[heteroglossia]

Barthes suggests that science differs from poetry not because of any disparity between them in format, content, method, or intent but because of a disparity between them in status – a prestige of pedagogy. Whereas poetry has always offered an egalitarian regime, destabilizing the signifier within a generalized economy of polysemic enunciation, science has only offered a totalitarian regime, stabilizing the signified within a restricted economy of monosemic enunciation. For Barthes, science must begin to acknowledge its ideological investments, radicalizing itself by poeticizing itself. If ideology is the unreal conciliation of a real contradiction, is it not fair to say that ideology is itself an imaginary solution—and therefore ‘pataphysical? If metaphysics must study the ontology of truth, must not ‘pataphysics study the ideology of power?

Christian Bök, 'Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science

[zzkt]

The Forest is a College, Each Tree a University

Adapting the absurdist metaphysical conjectures of Pataphysics (Alfred Jarry’s Science of imaginary solutions) to Botany creates a fantastic ecology of verdant pataphors. Metaflora, Phycological futurology and hypnogogic phyllotaxis perhaps? Libarynth invents and documents this new branch of speculative science and its related offshoots by ‘patafying’ the study of plants. Triffids take note! Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney’s Cursory Speculations on Human Plant Interaction ‘explores the nature of surfaces and processes required to facilitate reciprocal interaction between humans and plants’. Examined in the paper: the continued evolution of human-plant symbiotics – in their somatic and syntactic protocols. This includes shamanic enthogenic communication and Thalient strategies.

http://www.dataisnature.com/?p=612

[nickkahler]

Laurent Gongora, 'Patapont III at Parc du Futuroscope, Poitiers, France, 2014

A portmanteau of 'pataphysics and pont, this third version of the yellow bridge beyond metaphysics provides a neo-surrealist / absurdist juxtaposition with its theme park milieu.