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depicting the Bachelors (built from Malic Moulds attached to
an array of diverse devices:
a Water Wheel, a Chocolate
Grinder, a Butterfly Pump, etc.).
Jerry-rigged from Jarry-
rigged ideas, this blueprint of schizoid gadgetry dramatizes
the shock of coincidental correlations (the clinsmen of
which is only highlighted by the fact that the glass itself
has since become riven with cracks--the result of a jolt
suffered during vehicular transport).
Anastasi suggests that Duchamp uses this machine to
perform a clinamen upon the devices of Jarry.
Just as Jarry
deploys the electric-chair of The Supermale in order to
imagine a pseudo-science of perpetual motion, so also does
Duchamp resort to the electric-motor of The Bachelors in
order to imagine a pseudo-science of libidinal action--the
as if of what Duchamp might cal1 a science of hs~o~hvsics
(Anastasi 88).
Such a science permits Duchamp to regard
each of his own impossible hypotheses as an, otherwise
imaginable, condition that has merely become detached from
the alternate dimension of its own possibility:
" 1 was
interested in introducing [into rny work] the
precise[...Jaspect of science," but "[ijt wasn't for love of
science that 1 did this; on the contrary, it was rather in
order to discredit it, mildly, lightly, unimportantly" ( 39).