Meaning of pataphysical | Babel Free

Definitions

Relating to pataphysics.

Examples

“Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical Science in the home”

“[Fargue] couples a bent for discovery with a flair for creating a style suited to these astonishing circumnavigations, with their uncertain, hilarious or deceptive endings, to these ambiguous "dead ends cluttered with butterflies" where we observe⟳ the pataphysical creation of imaginary memories.”

“I have⟳ argued that stories and narrative consciousness are specific, particular, effectively 'pataphysical' in their form⟳ and application.”

“This contrast between an earyl bpNichol who often used the liber the liberationist rhetoric of neo-Freudian psychotherapy to forumlate his poetics and Nichol who was part of The Four Horsemen and the creator of numerous pataphysical and conceptual texts contributes to a current tension within Nichol scholarship.”

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