In the 1890s, French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry founded
pataphysics, the absurdist "science of imaginary solutions," a
concept that has been nominally recognized as the precursor to
Dadaism, Surrealism, and the Theater of the Absurd, among other
movements. Over a century after Jarry "made the gesture of dying,"
Katie L. Price and Michael R. Taylor argue that it is time to take
the comedic intervention of pataphysics seriously. 'Pataphysics
Unrolled collects critical and creative essays to create an
unauthorized account of pataphysical experimentation from its
origins in the late nineteenth century through the contemporary
moment. Reaching beyond the geographic and cultural boundaries
normally associated with pataphysics, this volume presents rich
readings of pataphysical syzygy, traces the influence of
pataphysics across disciplines and outside of coteries such as the
College de 'Pataphysique, and asks fundamental questions about the
field of modern and contemporary studies that challenge
distinctions between the modern and the postmodern, high and low
culture, the serious and the comic. Touching on disciplines such as
literature, art, architecture, education, music, and technology,
this book reveals how pataphysics has been a platform and medium
for persistent intellectual, poetic, conceptual, and artistic
experimentation for over a century. In addition to the editors, the
contributors to this volume include Charles Bernstein, Marc Decimo,
Adam Dickinson, Johanna Drucker, Craig Dworkin, Catherine Hansen,
James Hendler, John Heon, Ted Hiebert, Andrew Hugill, Steve
McCaffery, Seth McDowell, Jerome McGann, Anne M. Mulhall, Marcus
O'Dair, Jean-Michel Rabate, Orchid Tierney, and Brandon Walsh.
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