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Introduction: Elements of 'Pataphilology

  • Sean Gurd (author)
Chapter of: 'Pataphilology: An Irreader(pp. 21–59)

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TitleIntroduction
SubtitleElements of 'Pataphilology
ContributorSean Gurd (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0232.1.03
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/pataphilology-an-irreader/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightGurd, Searn
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2018-11-19
Long abstractI began to think with the word ’pataphilology around 2001, as a way of grouping a dossier of very strange texts that ranged in date of origin from the 1860s through the 1990s and in genre from avant-garde literature through the work of outsid-ers, hallucinators, schizophrenics, and principled refuseniks to normal (and normative) language practices. Sometimes these texts (many of which are gathered in the epoch-marking 1998 anthology Imagining Langugae, edited by Jed Rasula and Steve McCaffery) deploy perfectly respectable philological method-ologies, but in a manner which leads to bizarre and even oth-erworldly results; at other times new philologies are invented, then deployed to produce remarkable and moving documents. Reading these works, I felt as though I had entered an alternate world in which everything I knew had somehow been subtly changed, where everything was itself and yet unsettlingly differ-ent at the same time.
Page rangepp. 21–59
Print length39 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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