Pataphysica

About the Book

Pataphysics may be best known as the occupation of a murder victim in the Beatles' song, "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". We learn that "Joan was quizzical studied pataphysical science in the home Late night all alone with a test tube oh, oh-oh-oh." Alfred Jarry, who probably founded the Dada movement as well as the Theater of the Absurd, invented the science of imaginary solutions around the close of the nineteenth century. Pataphysica collects the thoughts of contemporary pataphysicists, pataphysicians, and scholars. They awaken the discipline for our century while writing on subjects as diverse as the Theater of Pure Form, baseball, minute measurement, laughter, language, and the infinite sphere.

About the Author

Cal Clements (Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo; M.A., University of Georgia; B.A., Emory University) pursues the ethernal fourth dimension through writing and objects. His doctoral dissertation was entitled Cosmic Psychoanalysis: Lovecraft, Lacan, and Limits. His Master?s thesis took the title, Thinking in Four Dimensions: Techniques in Post-Structural Theory for Perception of Hyperspace. He currently resides in Athens, Georgia.