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 · The apostrophe means someone consciously practicing pataphysics, sans apostrophe is someone who is doing it unbeknownst to them, as pataphysics is said to have existed since time immemori Lots of examples, as pataphysics is probably best illustrated by, and that what we refer to as "absurd" or "surreal" art is, according to Hugill, more appropriately 'Pataphysical (Duchamp).4/5. Pataphysics, although complex and difficult, is in fact quite a cogent body of exploits and ideas, which has a history and certain fixed precepts. while the contradictory and the exceptional are woven into its very fabric, the sloppy, the woolly, and the "hip" are not. In this account of the evolution and influence of 'pataphysics, Andrew Hugill offers an informed exposition of a rich and difficult territory, staying aloft on a tightrope stretched between the twin dangers of oversimplifying a serious subject and taking a joke too seriously. Readers Also Enjoyed 'Pataphysics: A Useless Guide. The Third.

Andrew Hugill. Professor of Music | Professor of Creative Computing. MA, PhD, PFHEA, NTF, FRSA. Composer, musicologist, creative technologist. Author of The Digital Musician and 'Pataphysics: A Useless Guide. Creator of The Orchestra: A User's Manual. Founder of the Aural Diversity project. Buy 'Pataphysics: A Useless Guide (The MIT Press) by Hugill, Andrew (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. 'Pataphysics by Andrew Hugill, , available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide.

by Andrew Hugill. 'Pataphysics: A Useless Guide BY Andrew Hugill. The MIT Press. Hardcover, pages. $ Frenchman Alfred Jarry (–), a diminutive queer alcoholic raised on Rabelais and steeped in Symbolism, could be called the John the Baptist of modernism. While most of modernism’s inspirational figures are better known than Jarry, he influenced nearly all of them to varying degrees: Filippo Marinetti, Tristan Tzara, André Breton, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Max Ernst, Henri. In this account of the evolution and influence of 'pataphysics, Andrew Hugill offers an informed exposition of a rich and difficult territory, staying aloft on a tightrope stretched between the twin dangers of oversimplifying a serious subject and taking a joke too seriously. Critical reactions to 'Pataphysics: A Useless Guide emanated from all the orifices of this organism, with the Collège de 'Pataphysique offering the most sober appreciation and Brian Reffin Smith, writing in Leonardo, the most pataphysical one (although a recent review in Bomb by Daniel Levin Becker is a close contender for that appellation).