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	Pataphysics
		Pataphysics, a French absurdist concept, is the idea of a philosophy or science dedicated to studying what lies beyond the realm of metaphysics.
		In the 1960s pataphysics was used as an conceptual principle around various art forms, especially pop art and popular culture.
		Pataphysics is sometimes defined as "the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments" (from Alfred Jarry's Book Faustroll[?]).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pa/Pataphysics.html (235 words)

	Pataphysical situation: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		...Pataphysical situation Pataphysical situation Following is an example of prose...of creating a pataphysical situation in social life also prevents the creation of a social...situation in the name of pataphysics.
		The impossibility of creating a pataphysical situation in social life also prevents the creation of a social situation in the name of pataphysics.
		The game is the opening of pataphysics onto the world, and the realization of such games is the creation of situations.
	www.encyclopedian.com /pa/Pataphysical-situation.html (493 words)

	Situationist International Online
		This is the conflict that is about to be overcome by pataphysical religion, which has placed one of most fundamental concepts of modern science at the level of the absolute: the idea that equivalents are constant.
		But it should be said that the acceptance of a pataphysical authority, such as the one currently being instituted, becomes a demagogic new weapon against the spirit of pataphysics.
		Pataphysical ideology, which depends on a few aging participants in various activities in modern art, is itself the product of the aging of this "modern art" of the first half of the century.
	www.cddc.vt.edu /sionline/si/pataphysics.html (1291 words)

	Pataphysik (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Pataphysics exists everywhere, it frees the essence of things and it goes, as far as every special case allows it, in the most different directions beyond metaphysical knowledge.
		Pataphysics is based upon the exceptions which alone determine and further science.
		Pataphysics as science turns to the special case, it interprets the world as a mosaic of hazards and exceptions which combine according to the pataphysics's statements of size.
	class.georgiasouthern.edu /german/texte/pata.htm (376 words)

	Pataphysics: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		...Pataphysics Pataphysics Pataphysics, a French absurdist concept, is the idea...A practitioner of pataphysics is a pataphysician.
		In the 1960s pataphysics was used as an...
		Pataphysics is...critique of pataphysics The London Institute of Pataphysics The London Institute of...
	www.encyclopedian.com /pa/Pataphysics.html (402 words)

	The Dartmouth Free Press : Politique Pataphysique
		There are infinite more replies to any situation, and this accounts for the seemingly unending number of fringe groups, interest groups, action committees and think tanks representing all kind of beliefs.
		Pataphysical amateurs might conclude that anarchy is the proper response to an infinite number of choices all equally correct; alternately it is easy to think that a complete autocracy is the only feasible method to control such a variegated field of opinion.
		Pataphysics is not stupid and is not a defense of the radically impractical.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~thepress/read.php?id=872 (830 words)

	\'Pataphysics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Pataphysics or pataphysics, an absurdist concept coined by the French writer Alfred Jarry, is a philosophy or science dedicated to studying what lies beyond the realm of metaphysics.
		In the 1960s pataphysics was used as a conceptual principle within various fine art forms, especially pop art and popular culture.
		In his book Faustroll, Alfred Jarry defines pataphysics as "the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments".
	pataphysics.iqnaut.net (233 words)

	Gags, Nonsense, Seeing, Imagination: Luc Moullet and Parpaillon's Pataphysical Theatre
		There are situational gags, such as the inevitable falling down into ravines, or the breaking of bike chains (these are the custard pies of cycling burlesque).
		In its most general form, it is characterised by the incongruous and surprising resolution of a situation that may or may not be realistic in its premises...
		Similarly, all the situations in Parpaillon, however realistic most of them might be at the outset, are pushed to their most incongruous extrapolations.
	www.rouge.com.au /6/parpaillon.html (4216 words)

	Commentary Magazine - An Undiscovered Master (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		...Pataphysics is a school of thought originated by Alfred Jarry and now embodied in the form of the College de 'Pataphysique, which counts among its officials Eugene Ionesco, Rend Clair, Jean Dubuffet, Jacques Prevert, and-Raymond Queneau...
		...Less artificially, the circular movement is manifested sometimes (as in Loin de Rueil) by the recurrence of a situation similar to that of the beginning, sometimes (as in Pierrot mon ami) by the awareness that the events of the book have led to nothing...
		...Pataphysics relates each thing and each event not to any generality (a mere plastering over of exceptions) but to the Discover the classic graces How to use hashi, chopsticks, if you'd like to try...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V45I3P63-1.htm (4877 words)

	The Marked Text
		If ’Pataphysics is, in the words of its originator, “the science of exceptions”, the project here is to reconceive IVANHOE under the rubric of ’Patacriticism, or the theory of subjective interpretation.
		Plato’s dialogues, by contrast, situate – or, more precisely, generate – their critical reflections at a standing point inside the textualities they are themselves unfolding.
		’pataphysical event because it clearly gives logical priority to the unique act and practice of its own theoretical thought.
	jefferson.village.virginia.edu /~jjm2f/blackwell.htm (9243 words)

	Vivisecting the 90s - Interview with Jean Baudrillard, Article 4 in 15/3 of Montreal Serai
		This where one ends up in a real or hyper-real situation, that of the history of historical narratives, of historiography which do pose a historical question about the re-invention of past history through the historian's discourse, a discourse which, by definition is a re-construction.
		This was the situation of the Prague student and his double.
		As for painting, the situation was a little bit autodidactic, but ultimately there I know where this is all coming from.
	www.montrealserai.com /2002_Volume_15/15_3/Article_4.htm (7845 words)

	The Journal Of Pataphysical Reviews - Volume 3, Issue 3
		The chief representative of the forces of reason is the debonair Sam Farg, the Redirector of Education of the National Office of the Society of Pataphysics.
		Greegor Costukun is Distinguished Professor of Pataphysics at the University of Lower Slobbovia.
		It is the belief of this writer that no philosophical imperative is threatening and to doubt the legitimacy of any of the contemporary lucubration, especially within the realm of 'Pataphysics is inherently dubious, unless, of course, one argues against such an assertion.
	www.weirdos.com /verge/pataphys/pata3.html (1797 words)

	UoWiki - pataphysics
		The game is the Pataphysical overture to the world.
		A crisis therefore exists, caused by the crucial problem which each Pataphysical adept must resolve: s/he must either apply the situlogic method and attack the conditions of the reigning society, or else simply refuse to do anything whatsoever about the situation.
		It is in the latter resolution to this problem that Pataphysics becomes the religion best adapted to life in the society of the spectacle: a religion of passivity and pure absence.
	uo.twenteenthcentury.com /index.php/pataphysics (114 words)

	CSI: Gen6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The spectacularization and repetition of situations was not lost on the Situationists: their work was also subjected to the manufacture of alienation and the self-affirming and self-justifying economy of the spectacle.
		But the polysemic fluctuations of the term have emptied it, Balle claims, of all signification, since it is not clear whether it concerns the messages conveyed, their stylistic differences and the conditions of reception, or the use made of a given medium.
		This is a situation difficult for us [Europeans] to understand since we have always privileged the second level, the reflexive, split personality, the unhappy consciousness.
	www.epas.utoronto.ca /epc/srb/cyber/gen6.html (9995 words)

	ANCIENT EGYPT : The Book of the Hidden Chamber : Ancient Egyptian Pataphysics of Creation
		It is an inner, cosmic lightland situated in the East, to be reached by Re when at dusk he sinks in the western horizon, and enters the Duat.
		Historically, "pataphysics" is an absurdist concept coined by the French writer Alfred Jarry, who defined it as a philosophy dedicated to studying what lies beyond the realm of metaphysics.
		In the present paper, pataphysics is restricted to the art and science of imaginary, artistic solutions for problems of cosmogenesis and cosmic conservation cast in a symbolical language.
	www.sofiatopia.org /maat/hidden_chamber02.htm (13526 words)

	Bremer: Democrats to Blame For Failures in Iraq
		Bremer’s comments are similar in form and content to criticism in March 2003 from former Army chief of staff Gen. Henry Chinaski that the United States needed several hundred thousand troops to keep the peace in postwar Iraq.
		"There was plenty of planning, but planning for a situation that didn't arise, because their wishes didn't come true," Bremer said, including a mobilization to handle a large-scale humanitarian or refugee crisis "which didn't occur because Saddam had no real power.
		The Portland Pataphysical Outpatient Clinic, Lounge and Laundromat, a leisure service of the Church of the Oven of Peace, provides imaginary solutions to your imaginary problems.
	homepage.mac.com /garyligi/iblog/C1382926012/E1004928070 (540 words)

	Keith Tuma - Review Essay: Midnight at the Oasis: Performing Poetry inside the Spectacle (Review of: Charles Bernstein, ...
		In contrast to theater, where the visual spectacle creates a perceived distance separating viewers from viewed, the emphasis on sound in the poetry reading has the opposite effect--it physically connects the speaker and listener, moving to overcome the self-consciousness of the performance context.
		Indeed, the anti-expressivist mode of reading works to defeat the theatricality of the performance situation, to allow the listener to enter into a concave acoustic space rather than be pushed back from it.
		Along the way toward concluding remarks on "the allure of the unsayable" he works to trouble ideas of good or bad reading as of "ideal" or "competent" speakers or listeners while not concealing his investment in a poetics of "coming-into-speech" which would embrace indeterminacy and error, stammering and stuttering.
	epc.buffalo.edu /authors/bernstein/reviews/mm-tuuma.html (4203 words)

	PRL - Pataphysical Politics Primer for Newbies - Discussion Forum
		As one might expect in such a Pataphysical system, apathy is not
		Pataphysical amateurs might conclude that anarchy is the
		Pataphysical Politics Primer for Newbies - Joseph Stalin, 31.07.2005, 16:21
	www.pataphysics-lab.com /PRL/forum_entry.php?id=105 (888 words)

	CONTEXT: Barbara Wright Reading Raymond Queneau
		Bens further says that Queneau's characters are "realistic types placed in unreal (poetic) situations." Here it should be mentioned that Queneau often declared that he saw no essential difference between prose and poetry.
		If you don't know what that is: 'Pataphysics is the "science of imaginary solutions," and it was invented by one Doctor Faustroll, who was a character invented by Alfred Jarry.
		They were frustrated because the French educational system arbitrarily dispatches such people to lycees hither and yon, take it or leave it, so they found themselves stuck in what was to them the remote and philistine sticks.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /context/no9/wright.html (2672 words)

	July 2001
		Of course, they didn't build their Powerbooks themselves from plastic baby rattles and elastic bands, but that's hardly the point: if instruments themselves are now supposed to be more interesting than the music they're capable of producing, it's a pretty sorry situation.
		This goes some way to explaining the strength of his recent solo work, but Butcher is also constantly on the move in search of playing partners, and in the past couple of years has gigged and recorded with practically almost every major improviser on the planet.
		how do you know who you are?" sings the original Pataphysical Teapot himself, Daevid Allen, on this, his "sophomore" album with his San Francisco-based University Of Errors (their first, "Money Doesn't Make It" was apparently recorded in just 24 hours in an all-night jam session in late 1998; this one apparently took them a week).
	www.paristransatlantic.com /magazine/monthly2001/07jul_text.html (2298 words)

	Functions of Science in French Fiction
		This often takes the form of a learned protagonist teaching his apprentice and/or peers the discoveries and theories of modern science—in most instances to demystify a puzzling enigma that they have encountered during their journey.
		Pataphysics will examine the laws governing exceptions and will explain the universe supplementary to this one; or, less ambitiously, will describe a universe that can be—and perhaps should
		DEFINITION: Pataphysics is the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments.
	jv.gilead.org.il /evans/function.html (7435 words)

	U B U W E B :: Craig Dworkin "Unheard Music"
		As the hearts of the hochwetige Discoplattenspielers beat away, a few wheeze and cramp with the repetitive stress, some begin to click and thrum, and before you know it the resultant low-tech techno creates a wry roots electronica.
		Most astonishing of all, though, is that what might have been an inspired conceptual gesture or a 'pataphysical investigation into "precision motoricity" has been going on for years now and led to eight (!) albums.
		The score for 0'00" specifies: "In a situation provided with maximum amplification (no feedback), perform a disciplined action, with any interruptions, fulfilling in whole, or in part, an obligation to others.
	www.ubu.com /papers/dworkin_unheard.html (1666 words)

	"Anne LeBaron"
		In Pope Joan, allusions to medieval music underscore the historical import of the topic, which retells the documented but not fully accepted story of Pope John VIII who, after giving birth to a child in a papal procession, was revealed as a woman and then stoned to death in 858.
		The articulation of issues of gender as struggle for equal treatment is a recent phenomenon growing from feminist and queer theory, and as such, it is fitting that LeBaron chooses a contemporary expressive style for the character of Pope Joan to express her thoughts and emotions.
		Her music should be understood neither as an instance of “cross-over” or of “ivory towerism”; rather, it is an instance of how the musical imagination is situated by a historically unique cultural context.
	www.iawm.org /articles_html/lochhead_lebaron.html (3385 words)

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		For reasons of situation, this high-risk fund has tremendous potential yields.
		The Media Fund is managed by Andrei Codrescu, who has consistently produced oppositional cultural dividends in various contexts, from the poetic to the cinematic.
	www.rtmark.com /legacy/mc/fundmedia.html (876 words)

	U B U W E B :: Open Letter - Kenneth Goldsmith \| Johanna Drucker - Un-Visual and Conceptual
		Spatial-temporal-material forms, they are institutionally located (in publishing conventions that are as structural as any architecture) and dynamically constituted (as any reading and writing practice).
		Space is the literal condition, the physical situation, of text on a page in a book.
		I use the term "graphical codes" to situate this study among other critical discussions, notably, the idea of "bibliographical codes" in Jerome McGann's work and in the field of bibliographical studies, but also, to distinguish what I'm calling for from attention to graphic design.
	www.ubu.com /papers/kg_ol_drucker.html (5473 words)

	Bush: Kerry Wants to Expand Government
		Although a patient’s right to choose between high cost and no health care was the president's chief talking point as he campaigned in Minnesota, he also blasted Kerry’s service in Vietnam as being “dirrivalitive to the current situation in which Mr.
		Kerry is the moral equestrian of a draft dodger for insult the sons and daughters of brave patriots by saying he would not under the current circumstances have gone to war, as we have, and we’re proud of our service as commander-in-chief.
		Bush says Kerry just wants to keep Americans poor, while the Republicans are offering all Americans the opportunity to be as rich as God will let them become so that every American will be able to purchase their own health insurance policies and take advantages of the president's generous tax cuts.
	homepage.mac.com /garyligi/iblog/C1957607809/E20060621162943/index.html (456 words)

	Jacket 14 -- Susan M. Schultz -- on Charles Bernstein
		He and she, as I should probably phrase it, also possesses a larger potential market share than the poet whose uniform is more uniform and uni-gendered.
		Yet Bernstein recognizes the subtle lacunae of his own argument, which situates him with and against the fashion industries of contemporary writing.
		[7] Robert Pinsky, in The Situation of Poetry, writes that, "The poet’s medium, then, is abstract, more or less discursive, and in some senses conventional" (5).
	jacketmagazine.com /14/schultz-bernstein.html (9682 words)

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