’Pataphysics Unrolled

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 Rabaté 3. Wartime Pataphysics: Postwar Surrealism, the Main à Plume Group, and Boris Rybak’s Intraphysics Catherine Hanson 4. Marcel Duchamp and the Collège de ‘Pataphysique Marc Décimo Translated by Anne M. Mulhall 5. The Potential Energy of Texts [ΔU = −PΔV] Craig Dworkin 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 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