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Pataphysics is the study of logical impossibilities.
Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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Pataphysics is the study of logical impossibilities.
Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk Hal Duncan 2008
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Pataphysics is the absurdist pseudo-philosophy/ideology devised by Alfred Jarry.
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Pataphysics is the absurdist pseudo-philosophy/ideology devised by Alfred Jarry.
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Pataphysics in his hands was all about the restoration of the archaic in modernity.
Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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'Pataphysics deals with "the laws which govern exceptions and will explain the universe supplementary to this one".
Pataphysics and Fictive Art Heather McDougal 2008
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'Pataphysics deals with "the laws which govern exceptions and will explain the universe supplementary to this one".
Archive 2008-02-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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Pataphysics in his hands was all about the restoration of the archaic in modernity.
Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk Hal Duncan 2008
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Pataphysics epi meta ta phusika has as its exact and explicit object the great Turning, the overcoming of metaphysics, the rising up beyond or before, "the science of that which is superinduced upon metaphysics, whether in itself or outside of itself, extending as far beyond metaphysics as the latter extends beyond physics."
Archive 2007-01-01 enowning 2007
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Pataphysics is the science of Meaningless Solutions, and its main practitioner was Jarry, who wrote all those Ubu plays.
Even in a little thing gillpolack 2006
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