There is something fantastically attractive about this book. Pataphysics, the science of exceptions and imaginary solutions, can be directly linked to creativity and is therefore very suitable to guide the transformation from relevant into creative search. A theoretical exhibition pataphysics exhibitions sean. Pataphysics is the science of that which is superinduced upon metaphysics, whether within or beyond the latters limitations, extending as far beyond. Another attempt at a definition interprets pataphysics as an idea that the virtual or imaginary nature of.
For jarry, on the other hand, the time machine is evidence of pataphysics, and hence the power of metairony. The city, like art and literature is also a poetic expression of our imagination. The poetics of an imaginary science avantgarde and modernism studies by christian bok isbn. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. It makes for a decent if occasionally labored history even as the examples are often amusing and quite interesting, but rather limits the insight on offer. One attempt at a definition might be to say that pataphysics is a branch of philosophy or science that examines imaginary phenomena that exist in a world beyond metaphysics. The poetics of an imaginary science, and six years later, yale university press gave us thomas chimes. Pataphysics in albertopolis architectural association. Pataphysics is indeed becoming an international quasiscience.
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This book offers a decoder for some of the new forms of poetry enabled by digital technology. She was looking for keys to jarrys poetics in those texts, which she says seemed to. Of all the french cultural exports over the last 150 years or so, pataphysicsthe science of imaginary solutions and the laws governing exceptionshas proven to be one of the most durable originating in the wild imagination of. As part of our pataphysical programs this month at the mill valley library, we hosted a special event about pataphysics, the science of imaginary solutions and its founder, french poet alfred jarry. Pataphysics, the pseudoscience imagined by alfred jarry, has so far. Pataphysics is the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes to. Poetics aristotle aristotles poetics aims to give an account of poetry. Pataphysics represents a supplement to metaphysics, accenting it, then replacing it, in order to create a philosophic alternative to rationalism. Before dada, there was pataphysics, the science of imaginary solutions.
Pataphysics, the pseudoscience imagined by alfred jarry, has so far, b. We will use the imaginary science of pataphysics as a research methodology. Margueritte harmon bro is a wellknown author, some of his books are a fascination for readers like in the the book you always meant to read. The poetics of an imaginary science 2001, and the xenotext book 1 2015.
The poetics of an imaginary science avantgarde and modernism studies first edition by bok, christian isbn. The poetics of an imaginary science by christian bok. His previous books are crystallography, a pataphysical encyclopedia nominated for the gerald lampert award for best poetic debut, and pataphysics. A thesis submitted to the faculty of graduate studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements f o r t h e degree of. Pataphysics is the science of imaginary solutions, which. Nov 01, 2005 pataphysics will be, above all, the science of the particular, despite the common opinion that the only but pataphysics says. Of all the french cultural exports over the last 150 years or so, pataphysicsthe science of imaginary solutions and the laws governing exceptionshas proven to be one of the most durable. It explains that pataphysics exemplifies an ecocritical approach that owes more to poetics than it does to traditional analytical methodologies and describes a number of recent examples of pataphysical research projects with distinct ecocritical dimensions. Originating in the wild imagination of french poet and playwright alfred jarry and his schoolmates, resisting clear definition, purposefully useless, and almost impossible to. The section headers are all direct quotations from boks texts, as are the individual sentences in the essays first section. Since a guide to a persons imagination presupposes a reality which is unattainable, that is, it. Contemporary science is founded upon the principle of induction. A critical look at the historical and cultural implications of alfred jarrys pseudoscience, pataphysics pataphysics, what alfred jarry calls the science of imaginary solutions. The first complete account in english of the evolution of pataphysics from its french origins, with explications of key ideas and excerpts from primary sources, presented in reverse chronological order.
May 27, 2014 to realize the potentiality of such a radical poetics, a constraint is envisaged only on the condition that this text contain all the possibilities of the constraintwhich is to say that the constraint must comprehensively evoke the entire domain of its own as if, producing not an exemplary singularity to be repeated but an imaginary. I was inspired by werner heisenbergs physics and philosophy 1958, which examines probability in mechanical systems for subatomic phenomenon in relation to philosophical thought, as well as chapter 22. Affiliated organisations have sprung up all over the world, even in mongolia. Envisaged as an avantgarde pseudoscience, the aim of pataphysics was to destabilize the underpinnings of conventional metaphysics from within deleuze 1998. This article examines the potential role of pataphysics, the science of imaginary solutions, in postmodern ecocriticism. The poetics of an imaginary science raises important historical, cultural, and theoretical issues germane to the production and reception of poetry, the ways we think about, write, and read it, and the sorts of claims it makes upon our understanding. Exploits and opinions of dr faustroll pataphysician. Christian bok is the author of eunoia, which won the 2002 griffin poetry prize and is the bestselling canadian poetry book of all time. Welcome,you are looking at books for reading, the exploits and opinions of dr faustroll pataphysician, you will able to read or download in pdf or epub books and notice some of author may have lock the live reading for some of country. Faustroll, pataphysician, first appeared in 1911, and over the next 100 years, his pataphysical supersession of. The poetics of an imaginary science by christian bok at indigo.
The centerpiece of aristotles work is his examination of tragedy. The poetics of an imaginary science raises important historical, cultural, and theoretical issues germane to the production and reception of poetry, the ways we think about, write, and read it, and the sorts of claims it makes upon our. Alfred jarrys posthumous novel, exploits and opinions of dr. Wells, of course, stood in a long line of social commentators who used time travel as a convenient plot device for their speculations.
Here, jarry toyed with conventional concepts and interpretations of reality. Pdf pataphysical essays download full pdf book download. Pataphysics was a concept expressed by jarry in a mockscientific manner, with undertones of. Perhaps it is boks symmetrical sections, or the fact that he pulls off literary theory as poetry. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. This collaborative art project is inspired by combinatorial poetics, dada and surrealism, and makerism. Finding himself a letter short of a book, bok opted to write an obfuscule, i. The poetics of imaginary science raises important historical, cultural, and theoretical issues germane to the production and reception of poetry, the ways we think about, write, and read it, and the sorts of claims it makes upon our understanding. By following into the footsteps of oulipian writers, he applies the idea of constraint and the rule of restriction to the surprisingly visual and gestural nature of tarot. Examining many of the strange technological vectors converging on language, it proposes a poetics appropriate to the digital era while connecting digital poetry to traditional poetrys. A bit too much of pataphysics is a veritable litany of examples, giving the book the feel of a documentary catalogue rather than any sort of real guide.
Pdf download pataphysical essays free unquote books. All other sentences are splicingstogether of fragments from his texts. A readers journal pataphysics a useless guide by andrew hugill arj2 chapter. Aristotle does this by attempting to explai n poetry through first principles, and by classifying poetry into it s different genres and component parts.
Pataphysics was a concept expressed by jarry in a mock scientific manner, with undertones of. The poetics of an imaginary science is the only book i have read backwards. The poetics of an imaginary science northwestern university press, 2001. But even this unlikely target seems to have now fallen under the pomo scalpel if one is to blame christian boks recent pataphysics.
The science of imaginary solutions pataphysics is the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments. In 2001, just after the colleges emergence from its occultation, northwestern university press published christian boks pataphysics. This volume also includes daumals column for the nouvelle revue francaise, pataphysics this month. Adventures in pataphysics, a splendid art book on the pataphysical painter. Pataphysics was a concept expressed by jarry in a mockscientific manner, with undertones of spoofing and quackery, as expounded in his novel exploits and opinions of dr. What is so often performed today, jarry once predicted. A poetics appropriate to the digital era that connects digital poetry to traditional poetrys concerns with being. According to jarry, scientific knowledge is so deceptive that it cannot be corrected through the production of further knowledge. One definition is that pataphysics is a branch of philosophy or science that examines imaginary phenomena that exist in a world beyond metaphysics. When he let himself go he seemed in thrall to a torrent of words outside his control. Dip 1 ext brief 201819v5a architectural association. A long overdue critical look at a significant strain of the twentiethcentury avantgarde, pataphysics. A theoretical exhibition, a group exhibition focusing on pataphysical sensibilities in contemporary art, exploring the impact of this quirky and deeply influential philosophy originated at the end of the 19th century by the french poet and playwright alfred jarry. Dec 08, 2015 another attempt at a definition interprets pataphysics as an idea that the virtual or imaginary nature of things as glimpsed by the heightened vision of poetry or science or love can be seized and lived as real.