A Useless Guide
by Andrew Hugills
- Author(s)
- Andrew Hugills
- Publication, year
- Cambridge Mass. ; London : The MIT Press, 2012
- Scope
- 275 Pages, 24 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780262017794
Of all the French cultural exports over the last 150 years or so, ‘pataphysics', - the science of imaginary solutions and the laws governing exceptions - has proven to be one of the most durable. Originating in the wild imagination of French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry and his schoolmates, resisting clear definition, purposefully useless, and almost impossible to understand, ‘pataphysics nevertheless lies around the roots of Absurdism, Dada, Futurism, Surrealism, and Situationism. Drawing on more than twenty-five years’ research, Hugill maps the ‘pataphysical presence in literature, theater, music, the visual arts, and the culture at large, and even detects ‘pataphysical influence in the social sciences and the sciences.
- Person as subject
- Alfred Jarry
- Location
- Cabinet 9 - 3: Kunst stromingen en thema's
- Remarks
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index.
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