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Interesting, but hard to envision Ouranid Send a noteboard - 21/04/2012 11:12:23 PM

'Pataphysics was defined by Jarry as "the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments."


Wikipedia describes 'pataphysics as "that which is above metaphysics" in the etymology section, and further states "works within the 'pataphysical tradition tend to focus on the processes of their creation, and elements of chance or arbitrary choices are frequently key in those processes.", perhaps like a Looney Tunes character threatened with erasure by a giant pencil? Did it influence post-modernism?

I do like the idea of 'pataphors, where a metaphor creates its own reality. I suppose in 'pataphors, a face would physically launch a thousand ships.
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