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Pataphysica

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 69 Collections and/or Records:

Exploits & Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician / Jarry, Alfred ; Simon Watson Taylor, translator ; Shattuck R ; Themerson S ; Mallarme S ; Valery P., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27660-28743
Scope and Contents

This book includes an in-depth introduction to the English translated version of Jarry's novel written in 1911 that forms the basis for Pataphysica. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

index finger / Lopes, Damian., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-35169-36903
Scope and Contents

This is a catalogue of fingerprinting publications 1990-1995. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Le Mirivis Des Naturgies / Martel, Andre ; Dubuffet, Jean., 1963

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Identifier: CC-30199-31600
Scope and Contents

This book is a smaller size reproduction of the lithographed book in 116 copies published by Alexandre Loewy in 1963. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Les tres riches heures du College de 'Pataphysique / Lutembi, Sa Magnificence, editor ; Jarry A ; Dubuffet J ; Queneau R ; Prevert J ; Duchamp M ; Leiris M ; Ernst M., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35838-37598
Scope and Contents

This book consists of a history of the administration of the college of Pataphysica as well as events, conferences and trips of the College with photographic documentation. It also includes photographic reproductionsof correspondences, publications, dossiers, postcards, stamps, tapes, and chronology and bibliography of the movement. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Participation Telephonique / Hubaut, Joel., 1995

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Identifier: CC-27540-28608
Scope and Contents

Image consists of an imagined telephone-like machine covered with made-up words to simulate a cyberspace conversion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Pataphysica [CR]Show More [CR]Show Less [CR]Pataphysica / Clements, Cal, editor ; Daniiels D ; Fritton C ; Jarry A ; Breton A ; Cortazar J ; Duchamp M ; Abbott E ; Stein G ; Mallarme S ; Kafka F ; Queneau R ; Shattuck R ; Vian B ; Wittgenstein L ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 2002

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Identifier: CC-53636-291353
Scope and Contents

Book blurb: Pataphysics may be best known as the occupation of a murder victim in the Beatles' song, "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". We learn that "Joan was quizzical studied pataphysical science in the home Late night all alone with a test tube oh, oh-oh-oh." Alfred Jarry, who probably founded the Dada movement as well as the Theater of the Absurd, invented the science of imaginary solutions around the close of the nineteenth century. Pataphysica collects the thoughts of contemporary pataphysicists, pataphysicians, and scholars. They awaken the discipline for our century while writing on subjects as diverse as the Theater of Pure Form, baseball, minute measurement, laughter, language, and the infinite sphere.This book references Davis Daniels' work at the Sackner web site. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Pataphysical Hardware Company / curry, jw, editor ; Brock R ; curry jw ; Nichol bp ; Souster R., 1992

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Identifier: CC-20059-20453
Scope and Contents

The press was founded by bp Nichol. This anthology contains reprints, originals and a copy of a booklet, Curvd H&Z no.235 that has been stored with the other issues in this series as well as the card, Gronk Intermediate Series No.19.The collaged page of Catalog Item #61 is a cellophane bag filled with powdered plaster of Paris in a stapled leaflet. Other Catalog Items from The Pataphysica Hardware Company include a pencil with erasers at both ends and one sharpened at both ends. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science, 2002

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Identifier: CC-46971-49709
Scope and Contents Back cover blurb:"Pataphysics, the pseudoscience imagined by Alfred Jarry, has so far, because of its academic frivolity and hermetic perversity, attracted very little scholarly or critical inquiry, and yet it has inspired a century of experimentation. Tracing the place of 'pataphysics in the tangled history of the relationship between science and poetry, Christian Bok demonstrates that 'pataphysics is fundamental to the nature of the postmodern. Bok considers the work of Jarry, 'pataphysician, both by itself and as it influenced work by later generations. Discussing 'pataphysics in general and Jarry's work in particular as a ludic counterpart of Nietzschean philosophy, Bok examines the relationship of rule and chance, of science and poetry, of the rational and the surrational. His work draws on a wide range of reading in poetry and theory to establish a firm historical ground for understanding the influence of 'pataphysics, making a variety of seemingly difficult or obscure...
Dates: 2002