’Pataphysics Unrolled / / ed. by Katie L. Price, Michael R. Taylor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Bernstein, Charles,; Dickinson, Adam,; Drucker, Johanna,; Dworkin, Craig,; Décimo, Marc,; Hansen, Catherine,; Hendler, James,; Heon, John,; Hiebert, Ted,; Hugill, Andrew,; McCaffery, Steve,; McDowell, Seth,; McGann, Jerome,; O’Dair, Marcus,; Price, Katie L.,; Rabaté, Jean-Michel,; Taylor, Michael R.,; Tierney, Orchid,; Walsh, Brandon,
• HerausgeberIn: Price, Katie L.,; Taylor, Michael R.,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Refiguring Modernism ; 36
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 20 color/19 b&w illustrations

In the 1890s, French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry founded pataphysics, the absurdist “science of imaginary solutions,” a concept that has been nominally recognized as the precursor to Dadaism, Surrealism, and the Theater of the Absurd, among other movements. Over a century after Jarry “made the gesture of dying,” Katie L. Price and Michael R. Taylor argue that it is time to take the comedic intervention of pataphysics seriously.’Pataphysics Unrolled collects critical and creative essays to create an unauthorized account of pataphysical experimentation from its origins in the late nineteenth century through the contemporary moment. Reaching beyond the geographic and cultural boundaries normally associated with pataphysics, this volume presents rich readings of pataphysical syzygy, traces the influence of pataphysics across disciplines and outside of coteries such as the Collège de ’Pataphysique, and asks fundamental questions about the field of modern and contemporary studies that challenge distinctions between the modern and the postmodern, high and low culture, the serious and the comic. Touching on disciplines such as literature, art, architecture, education, music, and technology, this book reveals how pataphysics has been a platform and medium for persistent intellectual, poetic, conceptual, and artistic experimentation for over a century.In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Charles Bernstein, Marc Décimo, Adam Dickinson, Johanna Drucker, Craig Dworkin, Catherine Hansen, James Hendler, John Heon, Ted Hiebert, Andrew Hugill, Steve McCaffery, Seth McDowell, Jerome McGann, Anne M. Mulhall, Marcus O’Dair, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Orchid Tierney, and Brandon Walsh.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Editors’ Note -- Introduction: “Unrolled by the Saliva and Teeth of the Water” -- Part 1: “And Behold, the Wallpaper of Faustroll’s Body”: Jarry’s Pataphysical Invitation -- 1. Twisted Witz: Experiments in Psychopathology and Humor by Dr. Faustroll and His Pataphysical Progeny -- 2. Pataphallics in Jarry’s Novels -- 3. Wartime Pataphysics: Postwar Surrealism, the Main à Plume Group, and Boris Rybak’s Intraphysics -- 4. Marcel Duchamp and the Collège de ’Pataphysique -- 5. The Potential Energy of Texts [ΔU = −PΔV] -- Part 2: “Like a Musical Score, All Art and All Science”: Pataphysics After Jarry and Beyond the Collège -- 6. Pataphysics in Philadelphia: The Strange Case of James E. Brewton -- 7. Circumstantial Evidence: Pataphysical Inflexions in Edward Dorn’s Gunslinger and bpNichol’s Probable Systems -- 8. Beyond “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”: Pataphysics and Popular Music -- 9. Art and the Pataphysics of Exception: Or, How a Sieve Becomes a Time Machine -- Part 3: “Written in the Curves of the Limbs”: Pataphysical Criticism -- 10. Reading, Writing, and Rhythmatic -- 11. The Patacritical Demon, Two Decades Later -- 12. Reflections on Applied Research in Patacriticism: Prism and Reading’s Shape -- 13. The Pataquerical Imagination: Midrashic Antinomianism and the Promise of Bent Studies -- Part 4: “Progression to an Infinite Degree Was Prophesied Therein”: Pataphysics’ Possible Futures -- 14. Concerning an Unfindable Architecture -- 15. Metabolic Poetics: Writing the Anthropocene -- 16. Pataphysics and Computing -- 17. Pataphysics and the Academy -- List of Contributors -- Index