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elasticity approaches an inexorable condition of inertia
(239)' Jarry believes that the avant-garde pseudo-science of
'pataphysics can intervene in the process of such a reality
in order to perturb the entropy of its banal order.
Jarry endeavours to demonstrate that, like alchemy,
which reduces al1 scientia to an erotic system of symbolic
exchange, even the chernical sciences comprise a set of
metaphorical abstractions, each laden with its own libidinal
intensity.
Jarry does not borrow scientific concepts so
much as scientific conceits, doing so in order ta imagine a
kind of "counter-dynamic," a catachemv (1965:253), whose
discourse can allegedly reconcile the antonyrnic diammetry
between the axiological objectivity of the ontic world and
the mythological subjectivity of the semic world:
"the
Geometer[. ..]knowest al1 things by the means of lines drawn
in different directions, and hast given us the veritable
portrait of three persons of God in three escutcheons which
are the quart essence of Tarot symbols" (251). Even in
science,- the figura1 is merely the alembic of the literal.
A Scientific Radicalism
Jarry may intend to transform the present context of a
posited reality, inspiring the anarchic politics of