’Pataphysics Unrolled

Katie L. Price is Senior Associate Director at the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility at Swarthmore College, codirector of the Philadelphia Avant-Garde Studies Consortium, and Interviews Editor at Jacket2. She is the author of the chapbook BRCA: Birth of a Patient.Michael R. Taylor is Artistic Director and Chief Curator at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. He is the author of Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés, Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, and Thomas Chimes: Adventures in ’Pataphysics.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsEditors’ NoteIntroduction: “Unrolled by the Saliva and Teeth of the Water”Katie L. PricePart 1: “And Behold, the Wallpaper of Faustroll’s Body”: Jarry’s Pataphysical Invitation1. Twisted Witz: Experiments in Psychopathology and Humor by Dr. Faustroll and His Pataphysical ProgenyJohn Heon2. Pataphallics in Jarry’s NovelsJean-Michel Rabaté3. Wartime Pataphysics: Postwar Surrealism, the Main à Plume Group, and Boris Rybak’s IntraphysicsCatherine Hanson4. Marcel Duchamp and the Collège de ‘PataphysiqueMarc Décimo Translated by Anne M. Mulhall5. The Potential Energy of Texts [ΔU = −PΔV]Craig DworkinPart 2: “Like a Musical Score, All Art and All Science”: Pataphysics After Jarry and Beyond the Collège6. Pataphysics in Philadelphia: The Strange Case of James E. BrewtonMichael R. Taylor7. Circumstantial Evidence: Pataphysical Inflexions in Edward Dorn’s Gunslinger and bpNichol’s Probable SystemsSteve McCaffery8. Beyond “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”: Pataphysics and Popular MusicMarcus O’Dair9. Art and the Pataphysics of Exception: Or, How a Sieve Becomes a Time MachineTed HiebertPart 3: “Written in the Curves of the Limbs”: Pataphysical Criticism10. Reading, Writing, and RhythmaticJerome McGann11. The Patacritical Demon, Two Decades LaterJohanna Drucker12. Reflections on Applied Research in Patacriticism: Prism and Reading’s ShapeBrandon Walsh13. The Pataquerical Imagination: Midrashic Antinomianism and the Promise of Bent StudiesCharles BernsteinPart 4: “Progression to an Infinite Degree Was Prophesized Therein”: Pataphysics’ Possible Futures14. Concerning an Unfindable ArchitectureSeth McDowell15. Metabolic Poetics: Writing the AnthropoceneAdam Dickinson16. Pataphysics and ComputingAndrew Hugill and James Hendler17. Pataphysics and the AcademyOrchid TierneySelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

“’Pataphysics Unrolled looks to be a pataphysically invaluable tome that is an illustration of . . . precisely such pataphysical endeavours as itself, pataphysically.”—Brian Reffin Smith Leonardo Reviews