PATAPHYSICS-THE-POETICS-OF-AN-IMAGINARY- SCIENCE_C_Bok

im~osed upon Canadians by a European avant-garde, but also
the ironic speech proposeci bg Canadians against a European
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avant-garde.
McCaf fery and Nichol suggest that Canadian
"Pataphysics moves from elision (') to quotation (") through
a superinducement on elision--"the doubling of the elide, a
doubled inversion and inverted doubling" (TRG 1992:301). A
parody of parody itself, such 'pataphysics performs a
clinamen upon its own history, simulating it (through
quotation) while disrupting it (through deviation). The
unknown origins of 'pataphysics are explained by the unknown
science of 'pataphysics:
"the quotation[ ...] of the given
that we do not understand but with emendations that serve to
constitute our explanation" (301-302).
Canadian "Pataphysics suggests that its dual, but open,
quote signifies a "portmanteau confluence" (TRG 1992:301) of
the meta (beyond) and the para (beside), situating itself
within a place, both external and supernal
--a place that, like Canada, is defined paradoxically by its
placelessness: the interzone of ethernity. The open quote
for such a science marks the openness of a site that muat
cite its own openness.'
Its space does not tell the vhole
truth because it never has the lest word.
To quote truth in
such a space is to engage in an endless process of eruptive
aperture, "the [ s ]cience of the never-ending ,