An introduction to the pataphysical

The following point to extended pieces that will give you a brief introduction to pataphysical matters. I will stress here my own take which is that its importance lies in its acknowledgement of exceptions which are endemic in reality.

Life In Berlin: Gorka De Duo And Pataphysics

By LAUREN NAPIER • JUL 20, 2015

• Alfred Jarry, the father of Pataphysics, riding his bike in Alfortville, a suburb of Paris, France, in an undated picture.
• WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/PUBLIC DOMAIN

Pataphysics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the absurd. Though not spoken about in mainstream society, it has been followed and studied by many prominent artists including Duchamp, The Marx Brothers, and the Beatles.

pataphysics is dead serious

By Pascal Engel.

Pataphysicians have the reputation of not being serious. Indeed they seem to have elevated the spirit of non seriousness to the status not only of an art, but of a science, pataphysics itself. As Richard Marshall says in his illuminating account of pataphysics: “The pataphysicist insists that nothing is serious, including pataphysics. The riddling nature of this injunction reminds us that the goad and guide of paradox requires agnosticism that can take more than one form.”

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“The conclusion should now be obvious. From these three cases — but one could display many more — I conclude, from the first rule of pataphysical inductive logic, that From Some Fs are G, one can infer that All Fs are G,that all pataphysicians are serious. Pataphysics is not only serious, it is dead serious.”