MIT Press MA | ISBN:0262017792 | File Type: PDF, 296 pages | File size: 50.Mb | Aug. 24th, 2012
Cognitive Psychology: A Useless Guide Of all the French ctural exports over the last 150 years or so pataphysics the science of imaginary solutions and the laws governing exceptions has proven to be one of the most durable Originating in the wild imagination of French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry and his schoolmates resisting clear definition purposefly useless and almost impossible to understand pataphysics nevertheless lies around the roots of Absurdism Dada futurism surrealism situationism and other key ctural developments of the twentieth century In this account of the evolution and influence of pataphysics Andrew Hugill offers an informed exposition of a rich and diffict territory staying aloft on a tightrope stretched between the twin dangers of oversimplifying a serious subject and taking a joke too seriously Drawing on more than twenty five years research Hugill maps the pataphysical presence partly conscious and acknowledged but largely unconscious and unacknowledged in literature theater music the visual arts and the cture at large and even detects pataphysical influence in the social sciences and the sciences He offers many substantial excerpts in English translation from primary sources intercalated with a thorough explication of key themes and events of pataphysical history In a Jarryesque touch he provides these in reverse chronological order beginning with a survey of pataphysics in the digital age and working backward to Jarry and beyond He looks specifically at the work of Jean Baudrillard Georges erec Italo Calvino J G Ballard Asger Jorn Gilles Deleuze Roger Shattuck Jacques r vert Antonin Artaud Ren Clair the Marx Brothers Joan Mir Max Ernst Marcel Duchamp James Joyce Flann O Brien Raymond Roussel Jean ierre Brisset and many others
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