Katie L. Price is Associate Director at the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, a codirector of the Philadelphia Avant-Garde Studies Consortium, and Interviews Editor at Jacket2. She is the author of the chapbook BRCA: Birth of a Patient. Michael R. Taylor is the Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Art and Education at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. He is the author of Marcel Duchamp: Etant donnes, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, and Thomas Chimes: Adventures in 'Pataphysics.
Description
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Editors' Note Introduction: "Unrolled by the Saliva and Teeth of the Water" Katie L. Price 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 John Heon 2. Pataphallics in Jarry's Novels Jean-Michel Rabate 3. Wartime Pataphysics: Postwar Surrealism, the Main a Plume Group, and Boris Rybak's Intraphysics Catherine Hanson 4. Marcel Duchamp and the College de 'Pataphysique Marc Decimo Translated by Anne M. Mulhall 5. The Potential Energy of Texts [?U = ?P?V] Craig Dworkin Part 2: "Like a Musical Score, All Art and All Science": Pataphysics After Jarry and Beyond the College 6. Pataphysics in Philadelphia: The Strange Case of James E. Brewton Michael R. Taylor 7. Circumstantial Evidence: Pataphysical Inflexions in Edward Dorn's Gunslinger and bpNichol's Probable Systems Steve McCaffery 8. Beyond "Maxwell's Silver Hammer": Pataphysics and Popular Music Marcus O'Dair 9. Art and the Pataphysics of Exception: Or, How a Sieve Becomes a Time Machine Ted Hiebert Part 3: "Written in the Curves of the Limbs": Pataphysical Criticism 10. Reading, Writing, and Rhythmatic Jerome McGann 11. The Patacritical Demon, Two Decades Later Johanna Drucker 12. Reflections on Applied Research in Patacriticism: Prism and Reading's Shape Brandon Walsh 13. The Pataquerical Imagination: Midrashic Antinomianism and the Promise of Bent Studies Charles Bernstein Part 4: "Progression to an Infinite Degree Was Prophesized Therein": Pataphysics' Possible Futures 14. Concerning an Unfindable Architecture Seth McDowell 15. Metabolic Poetics: Writing the Anthropocene Adam Dickinson 16. Pataphysics and Computing Andrew Hugill and James Hendler 17. Pataphysics and the Academy Orchid Tierney Selected Bibliography List of Contributors Index
"Continuing and elaborating Alfred Jarry's notion of 'pataphysics, this collection tracks 'pataphysics' continued appearances and developments in ensuing avant-garde movements, modern and contemporary art, the intersections of art, literature, and science- and the far-reaching effects of pushing against normative logics and thinking in exceptional ways." -Judith Roof,author of What Gender Is, What Gender Does "'Pataphysics Unrolled looks to be a pataphysically invaluable tome that is an illustration of . . . precisely such pataphysical endeavours as itself, pataphysically." -Brian Reffin Smith Leonardo Reviews