3. Wartime Pataphysics: Postwar Surrealism, the Main à Plume Group, and Boris Rybak’s Intraphysics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Editors’ Note xii
6. Introduction: “Unrolled by the Saliva and Teeth of the Water” 1
7. Part 1: “And Behold, the Wallpaper of Faustroll’s Body”: Jarry’s Pataphysical Invitation
8. 1. Twisted Witz: Experiments in Psychopathology and Humor by Dr. Faustroll and His Pataphysical Progeny 19
9. 2. Pataphallics in Jarry’s Novels 37
10. 3. Wartime Pataphysics: Postwar Surrealism, the Main à Plume Group, and Boris Rybak’s Intraphysics 46
11. 4. Marcel Duchamp and the Collège de ’Pataphysique 63
12. 5. The Potential Energy of Texts [ΔU = −PΔV] 79
13. Part 2: “Like a Musical Score, All Art and All Science”: Pataphysics After Jarry and Beyond the Collège
14. 6. Pataphysics in Philadelphia: The Strange Case of James E. Brewton 97
15. 7. Circumstantial Evidence: Pataphysical Inflexions in Edward Dorn’s Gunslinger and bpNichol’s Probable Systems 117
16. 8. Beyond “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”: Pataphysics and Popular Music 135
17. 9. Art and the Pataphysics of Exception: Or, How a Sieve Becomes a Time Machine 153
18. Part 3: “Written in the Curves of the Limbs”: Pataphysical Criticism
19. 10. Reading, Writing, and Rhythmatic 173
20. 11. The Patacritical Demon, Two Decades Later 193
21. 12. Reflections on Applied Research in Patacriticism: Prism and Reading’s Shape 203
22. 13. The Pataquerical Imagination: Midrashic Antinomianism and the Promise of Bent Studies 207
23. Part 4: “Progression to an Infinite Degree Was Prophesied Therein”: Pataphysics’ Possible Futures
24. 14. Concerning an Unfindable Architecture 225
25. 15. Metabolic Poetics: Writing the Anthropocene 240
26. 16. Pataphysics and Computing 258
27. 17. Pataphysics and the Academy 280
28. List of Contributors 291
29. Index 295