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pa·ta·phys·ics  (pät-fzks)
n. (used with a sing. verb)
The French absurdist concept of a philosophy or science dedicated to studying what lies beyond the realm of metaphysics, intended as a parody of the methods and theories of modern science and often expressed in nonsensical language.
[French pataphysique, alteration of Greek ta epi ta metaphusika, the (works) after the metaphysics (pseudo-title of a work by Aristotle modeled on ta meta ta phusika, the (works) after the Physics, Aristotle's Metaphysics) : epi, after; see epi- + metaphusika, metaphysics; see metaphysics.]
pata·physi·cal (--kl) adj.
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They never understood his Swiftian mind (let alone his pataphysical vision of capitalism) and never stopped criticizing his "bleak fatalism," the "pessimistic implications" of his theories, and his "morose conclusions" (in Poster's words) with the awkward disclaimer that his work was "fundamental to a reconstitution of critical theory.
Untimely meditations: Sylvere Lotringer on Jean Baudrillard by Lotringer, Sylvere / Artforum International
NEO-LIBERALISM AND TECHNO-POPULISM Gilles Chatelet, in an untranslated pataphysical treatise Vivre et penser comme des porcs (13) describes the emergence of a new techno-populist aristocracy responsible for, or at least complicit with, the discourse of "European becoming" through the lifting of social regulations, the abandonment of social causes and the belief in the scientific and rational processes of markets, in other words the advent of a post-social utopia.
Societies of control, compulsory ecstasy and the neo-liberal subject by Jutel, Thierry / Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue
 
 
 
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