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Juvenile Cosmology; Or Richard Powers’ Post-Global Doughnut

Transatlantica, 2010
Richard Powers’ novel Operation Wandering Soul (1993) enacts the canny link between an already jaded and out-dated globalism and the child as an ascendant category.
Judith Roof
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A 'Pataphysics Engine [PDF]

Games and Culture, 2007
This article plays a game with Jean Baudrillard's thought and the intellectual traditions on which it draws. Or rather, it plays Baudrillard's game but with a cheat code. The game or program here is the hyperreality of the contemporary world—Baudrillard's integral or virtual reality characterized by the dominance of things—of objects over subjects. The
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'Pataphysical Software [PDF]

Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2020
These days, whether the problem is climate change or boredom, there is an app for that. The rhetoric of problem and solution, accelerated by commercial needs and salvific tech gurus, implies that software can save the world. This paper wants to start a movement/rebellion against the ubiquitous equation of P(problem) + S(software) = S(solution) as a ...
Miguel Sicart, Irina Shklovski
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The conception of contemporary hypercivilization: J. Baudrillard

Creativity Studies, 2009
The article deals with the conception of hypercivilization that was developed by contemporary French media philosopher Jean Baudrillard and discusses its originality, innovation and philosophical‐sociological validity.
Jovilė Barevičiūtė
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Une apostrophe végétale : la mandragore d’Alfred Jarry

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia
What about ‘Pataphysics in the 21st century – Alfred Jarry’s philosophical and scientific concept, governed by the rules of the absurd, the principle of discovery and the derogation of rules?
Rike Bolte
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The Pataphysic Institute

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2010
The Pataphysic Institute (PI) is a research prototype multi-player game world. In PI, the personalities of the inhabitants are the base for the game mechanics. When interacting with other characters the potential emotional reactions depend upon avatars' current mood and personality.
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Cortázar, Surrealism And Pataphysics

, 2021
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Sara, Castro-Klarén, Castro-Klarén, Sara   +1 more
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Alfred Jarry and The Term ‘Pataphysics in The Postmodern Era

MetaScientia: Journal of the History and Philosophy of Science
‘Pataphysics, a concept introduced by French writer Alfred Jarry, is defined as the science of imaginary solutions for creativity, philosophy, and technology in the 21st century.
Aslı Tekgül
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Pataphysics and Pataphors : A Dialectical Approach

, 2023
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Embracing ‘Pataphysics of International Law [PDF]

Völkerrechtsblog
Tiedeke, Anna Sophia, González Hauck, Sué   +1 more
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