Pataphysical Institutes around the world.
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‘Pataphysics (French: ‘pataphysique) is a sardonic “philosophy of science” invented by French writer Alfred Jarry (1873–1907)[2] intended to be a parody of science.[3] Difficult to be simply
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What is the College of ’Pataphysics?
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The Collège de ‘Pataphysique, founded in 1948 in Paris, France, is a “society committed to learned and inutilious research”. (The word ‘inutilious’ is synonymous with ‘useless’.) The motto of the college is Latin: Eadem mutata resurgo (“I arise again the same though …
“For a number of years the head of the college has been a crocodile: Her Magnificence Lutembi, but it still came as something of a surprise to some of the old members to have a woman elected, and a non-French woman at that. The college’s complex electoral system ultimately …
