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171 language does not depict the world of the as is so much as create the world of the as if: "[tlhe time of created creationsl . . . ] should cede to the era of creating crestions" (48)--not artifacts, but catalysts: not objets d'art, but modes d'emploi. Poetry is no longer the effect of inspiration so much as it is the cause for inspiration: "[tlhe whole world of literature ought to become the object of numerousl . . . ] prostheses" ( 31 )--be they linguistic or cybernetic. l5 For Oulipo, inspiration is ultimately not irrational so much as it is surrational. Its creativity results from the fata of a simple law that applies itself to itself in order to form the alea of a complex art. The swerve of a clinamen arises from the rigor of its influence. Oulipo implies that each text ought to become no more than a tool to be deployed upon itself by yet another text in order to produce "a Topology of Commonplaces, in which one[ ...]succeed[s] in abstracting cornmonplaces from the structures of commonplaces--and then a 'squared' topology of these places, and so forth until one attains, in a rigorous analysis of this regressus itself, the absolute" (Oulipo 1986:50). Oulipo, however, introduces a clinarnen into this metaphysics of such an absolute. The repetition of a past constraint (the re~ressus) swerves into the intimation of a future potential (the digressus). The machinic accident of
such a swerve threatens the existential originality of creat ivity by reminding the poet about the potential iterability of creativity itself--which is to Say that even 'pataphysics must evoke its own 'pataphysical retroversion.
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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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llFtichards argues that poetic wisd
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48 15~eyerabend writes: "NO idea is
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f orgotten, influence upon the cano
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52 as such a science creates in adv
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54 elasticity approaches an inexora
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ironic conformity" (105). Shattuck,
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58 does Jarry combine the noetic an
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60 posits a panoptic absolute, whos
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62 Dufresne observes that "the shee
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64 observes that "whatever is self-
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together from text to text, as thou
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68 characters (particularly Ubu), s
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70 quantitp of vacuum seems far les
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72 will to error. For 'pataphysics,
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criticizes the truth of such rules
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76 from a curve (a difference in de
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78 such a binary relation and its p
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equation is laughable--but this lau
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Pound, such a swerve is the atomic
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84 Serres explains that, for Lucret
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The IrnaRinary Solution 'Pataphysic
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'Pataphysics effectively reveals th
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'~austroll provides a conceit for t
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'~ort, 1 ike Nietzsche, indulges in
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8 os se-de-~a~e utters a "tautologi
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'(~audrillard explains this idea by
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(la scossa), its noise (le rumore),
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the carcrashes of Ballard): delirio
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102 tropes. Marinetti values the sp
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aesthetic tradition, wreaking havoc
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evasive history of warfare without
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Paradigms in Collision Ballard has,
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110 Jarry and Ballard in both cases
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The Shock of Exception Carrouges su
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114 Carrouges has suggested that su
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116 device destroy nature through a
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118 software of al1 our logic" (199
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Page 231 and 232: 216 '~he Toronto Research Group stu
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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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