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Imaginary societies --- Transportation --- Ethnology --- Pataphysics.

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"This catalogue is published on the occasion of the first major museum exhibition in America devoted to the French writer and artist Alfred Jarry (1873-1907). The eclectic, enigmatic bent of Jarry's achievements and the fugitive nature of his early works have posed challenges to the perception of his complex role in the acceleration of modernism. By exploring artifacts of his enterprises in print and on paper, the catalogue Alfred Jarry: The Carnival of Being aims to contribute to a broader appreciation that has already begun: to position Jarry as a crucial hinge connecting the nineteenth- to the twentieth-century avant-garde, and to begin by considering Jarry's exploitation of the medium of the book as both cause and effect of his place in the spectral projects of modernism"--

Pataphysics --- Modernism (Aesthetics) --- Jarry, Alfred,

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Who speaks when you speak? Who writes when you write? Is it "you"--is it the "I" that you think you are? Or are we the chance inheritors of an invasive, exterior parasite--a parasite that calls itself "Being" or "Language?" If our sense of self is best defined on the basis of an exterior, parasitical force that enters us from the outside, then the "self" is no longer a centralized or agential "inside," but rather becomes reconfigured as the result of an "outside" that parasitizes the "inside"-as-host. Rough versions of this model can be found in several traditions of continental philosophy: in Lacan, Derrida, Serres, Kristeva, Foucault, Baudrillard, to name a few. However, the full implications of this ontological model have yet to be addressed: what are its consequences for a theory of subjects, objects, and the agencies that intersect with them? How does this framework alter our understandings of the human and the non-human, the vital and the material?An off-kilter point of view is required to consider this historical and philosophical situation. Language Parasites argues that the best way to conceive of the "self" or "subject" as something linguistically and ontologically constituted by an aggressive and parasitical outside is by asking the following question: "what is the being of a parasite?" In addressing this challenge, Braune combines speculative philosophy with 'Pataphysics (the absurdist science, invented by Alfred Jarry, that theorizes a physics beyond both the para and the meta, resulting in the pata). These theoretical collisions betray a variety of swerves that extend to the social (as a parasite semiotics), the cultural (as the invasive force of memes), the aesthetic (as the transition of postmodernism to postmortemism), the linguistic (as found in Saussure's paranoid researches into the paragram), the poetic (as seen in Christopher Dewdney's journey into "Parasite Maintenance" and Christian Bök's attempts to embed a poem in a bacterium), and the literary (as para-cited in Henry Miller's experience of housing a parasite named "Conrad Moricand"). The "voice" of the parasite can be found in what Saussure calls the "paragram"--the uncanny messages that lurk hidden underneath the written word. And what does the parasite say? Or, does its speech reject human ears?If the voice of the parasite mutters in the ear of the subject, then an anterior theoretical listening--a phorontology--is required, one that can negate the anthropocentric regimes of binaristic thought: the dyads of good and evil, right and wrong, male and female, inside and outside, etc. Language Parasites effectively transjects these dyads and emerges from these revealed sites and para-sites with a banquet of new philosophical concepts. Each of these concepts--such as "postmortemism," "hyperhistory," "the subject-of" or the "transject"--is selected for its intrinsic usefulness: they are scalpels and tools that can helpfully transcend anthropocentric dyads in order to unveil the continua of the non-human.The careful reader will already realize that Language Parasites is the result of a philosophical continental infection: it is the location of a meeting between the Derrida-parasite, the Serres-parasite, the Lacan-parasite, the Foucault-parasite, the Hegel-parasite, the Laruelle-parasite, and many other philosophical parasites. These parasites act as the hosts of other philosophies, each parasiting the other. Philosophy qua philosophy becomes the complex locale of a vigorous negotiation between host and parasite--a complex world that also implicates the author (lying on the postmortem slab) and the reader (requiring some form of medical or philosophical intervention). Language Parasites offers exactly this kind of medico-philosophical treatment: it is a tincture and a curative for your philosophical needs and ailments. You will feel full after reading this book.

Semantics (Philosophy) --- Ontology. --- pataphysics --- linguistics --- paragrams --- parasite semiotics --- phorontology --- pataphysics --- linguistics --- paragrams --- parasite semiotics --- phorontology

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Abécédaire de la science des solutions imaginaires, inventée par Alfred Jarry au début du XXe siècle, comme expérience littéraire et artistique réunissant peintres, cinéastes et dramaturges, et dotée de sa propre langue. ©Electre 2016

Pataphysics --- Pataphysique --- History --- Histoire --- Collège de 'pataphysique

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Este ensayo pretende aportar nuevas perspectivas sobre el valor del juego en la obra del escritor cubano Guillermo Cabrera Infante al tener en cuenta un corpus extenso, ínfimamente estudiado hasta el momento, que comprende tanto su obra póstuma –La ninfa inconstante (2008), Cuerpos Divinos (2010) y Mapa dibujado por un espía (2013)– como La Habana para un infante difunto (1979), carente de investigaciones actualizadas, y Exorcismos de esti(l)o (1976), prácticamente olvidado por la comunidad científica. Recurriendo metodológicamente a disciplinas tan diversas como la psicocrítica, la mitocrítica, la teoría de los juegos, la filosofía del lenguaje, la semiótica, la transtextualidad, la teoría de la recepción y al concepto de transferencia cultural, en este ensayo se analiza la particular construcción del juego de Cabrera Infante como proyecto existencial y las razones que lo motivaron a recurrir a las técnicas de composición de la ‘Patafísica y del OuLiPo para lograr sus objetivos.

Cabrera Infante, Guillermo, --- Pataphysics --- Cabrera Infante, G. --- Oulipo (Association)