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Italian Futurism: A 'Pataphvsics of Machinic Exception "[~]utomatism always embodies an irrational projection of consci~usness[..~.]~ There is a complete ['jpataphysics of the object awaiting description here, a science of imaginary technical solutions." (Baudrillard 1996bA13) " [Tl he unforeseen beast Clinamen e jaculated ont0 the walls of its universe. tt (Jarry 1965 : 238 ) The Machinic Future of Poetrj Italian Futurists present the first case for the surrationalism of the 'pataphysical, revising the structure of exception in order to oppose the irrationalism of the French Symbolists. Futurism responds to the avant-garde pseudo-science of Jarry by inflecting the machinic intensities of technological forms, arguing that exception results from the collision of machines. For Marinetti, Futurism begins accidentally with such a mechanical catastrophe: a carwreck that dramatizes the clinameq of a swerve, complete with the anomalous intensity of its shock
(la scossa), its noise (le rumore), and its speed (la velocitk). Such an event implies that, from any havoc wreaked by technology, there appears a route charted for aesthetics. Such a 'pataphysical epistemology values the uniqueness, if not the randomness, of surprise itaelf. Marinetti aligns Futurism with the modern advent of a cyborganic philosophy, in which an industry for hybridizing the anthropic and the machinic might parallel an artistry for hybridizing the poetic and the noetic: "[w]e cooperate with Mechanics in destroying the old poetry" (1991:75) since "[wle want to make literature out of the life of a motor" (95)--"[t]o listen to motors and to reproduce their conversation^'^ (96). Futurism simply resorts to the metaphor of the machine in order to depict metaphor as a machine, arguing that, since "[nlothing is more beautiful than a great humming central electric station[.. .,] panels bristling with dials, keyboards, and shining commutators," literature must learn to embrace the novelty of such technological modernization: "[tlhese panels are our only models for the writing of poetry" (106). Metaphor quite literally becomes a literary device, a mechanical conveyance, whose meaning descends etymologically (if not metaphorically) from the concept of vehicle (as the
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successors (first, the Italian Futu
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cases of exceptional singularity. L
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within one thecretical perspective,
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Vaneigem, however, warns us that, b
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xiii Notes to Preface l~eschler obs
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract Preface
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and ignore the piousness of al1 adm
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ut what miaht have become. It inhab
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6 the metaphysical to the anti-meta
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of thought without any absolute inv
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Exceptions, after all, can resort t
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only in poetry, but also in science
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differ from theories in the present
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16 is normal and known.' Nomad scie
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hybrid tensions, its metaphors not
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its subject as an absence--a vanish
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22 And during the cyborganismic pha
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24 lead becoming gold transmutes in
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advent of 'pataphysics does the con
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numerous elegies to scientists, par
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The Oraanismic Phase Coleridge obse
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Wordsworth claims t hat "[tlhe remo
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34 longer stabilize its object with
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the excesses of such metastasis evo
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discover the f eatures of the real
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40 in the as if so that the event m
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42 '~uhn writes that "a paradigi is
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44 '~homson eulogizes Newton: "The
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Page 71 and 72: ironic conformity" (105). Shattuck,
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Page 101 and 102: The IrnaRinary Solution 'Pataphysic
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Page 107 and 108: '~ort, 1 ike Nietzsche, indulges in
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Page 123 and 124: Paradigms in Collision Ballard has,
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Page 127 and 128: The Shock of Exception Carrouges su
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Page 133 and 134: 118 software of al1 our logic" (199
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and more by the curvilinear Dispars
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Queneau, for example, wilfully misr
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Perec cornplains that "formal manne
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constraint is proposed, but produce
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chance" (48). Oulipo agrees with Gr
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[wlhether poetry or theory, [is] no
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conceiving the literary" (72), so a
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acting as atomic diagrams by which
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164 sense when read left to right,
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that anyone turning the handles on
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single reader, reading one a second
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170 served by the mannerism of its
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such a swerve threatens the existen
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'~arinetti writes: "[m]y love of pr
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kuler, for example, proposes a feio
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%lotte argues that, when applied to
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15~ueneau has even cited Turing in
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the environmental mythopoiesis of s
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wonder over wisdom, evoking what De
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186 never-commencing discourse" (30
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of such imaginary acsdemies, langua
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(among other imaginary solutions) i
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192 1 ines that separate reason f r
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194 Canadian "Pataphysicians sugges
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Probable Ssstems Nichol defies the
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198 Nichol deploys such a "patsphys
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[that] we see in the present (alpha
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thematized investment in the classi
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sediment), and these layered forms
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206 we discover that "[tlhe tone of
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'pataphysics of such automatism in
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210 and subsequent exploration of i
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Canada itself as anything more than
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214 classical books," and "another
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216 '~he Toronto Research Group stu
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218 h h o l provides a "patsphysica
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I1~ccaffery suggests that fossiliza
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15~ewdney suggests that natural his
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the New Scientific Mind. Trans. G.
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226 New York: Doubleday, 1959. Broc
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Turnstone, 1983. Dawkins, Richard.
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Dufresne, Todd. "Derrida, Jarry, Ni
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and Windus, 1963. Huxley, T. H. Sel
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234 Marinetti, F. T. Let's Murder t
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Vintage, 1974. --- . Philoso~hs and
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238 Richards, 1. A. Science and Poe
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240 Szeemann, Harald, ed. Le Macchi
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Weschler, Lawrence. Mr. Wilson's Ca
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