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5.2 'Pataphysics Issue subscribe! RAMPIKE features select talent from around the world within a unique thematic: framework. $11 pays for a one-year s~J,sc:riptlon of two issues. Postage Included. Some back issues of RAMPIK'E are still avail· able In very limited numbers. Recent back Issues Include: the Violence Issue (sold out), the Erotica Issue (still available, a hundred copies still In stock), the Dream Issue (sold out), the Institutions Issue (approaching sell-out, twenty copies In stock), the Propaganda Issue (approaching sell-out, twenty copies In stock), and the Food Issue (approaching sell-out, forty copies in stock). INDEX Past numbers have featured: Laurie Anderson, VIto Acc:oncl, Claude Beausoleil, Joseph Beuys, Charles Bernstein, Stuart Brlsley, Chris Editorial 2 Burden, Nicole Brossard, George Bowerlng, William S. 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EDITORIAL In the west our attachment to the pursuit of knowledge outstrips our Dans les pays occidentaux, la poursuite achamee de la connaissance digestion of knowledge. It is like pouring liquid into a full cup. But we depasse la capacite de digestion: c'est essayer de remplir une tasse deja have "Pataphysics, with its new improved double elision mark! pleine! Heureusement, i1 y a la ''Pataphysique, avec sa double elision, la "Pataphysics, the imaginary science of impossible solutions, can offer ''Pataphysique nouvelle et amelioree, la science des solutions imaginaires instant and gentle relief to clogged mind passages. Digestion of qui peut soulager instantanement et en douceur les circuits mentaux knowledge improves dramatically with regular doses of "Pataphysics. By surcharges! La digestion de la connaissance s'ameliore nettement, a admitting the impossible, or the possibility of the unknown, a vast condition de l'accompagner d'une dose reguliere de la ''Pataphysique. En frontier suddenly opens. Lewis Carroll knew this when he wrote Through admettant !'impossible ou la possibilite de l'inconnu, un immense champ the Looking Glass. Clearly, there is no such thing as clockwise or d'experi~nce s'ouvre. Lewis. Carroll ne l'igno~t ~as en ecnvant Through counter-clockwise. In his book Synergetics Buckminster Fuller has · the l.LJoking Glass. ll est clair que le sens des mguilles d'une montre n'a explained the nonsense of up and Clown. Sunrise? Absurd. The earth pas de sens. Dans son livre Synergetic's, Buckminster Fuller montre turns. But the mind is a pataphysical camera. Sometimes it invents what it l'absurdite des notions de haut et de bas. Le solei! se leve? C'est absurde. sees. Time was invented by people. Set the pataphysical camera's shutter ~·est la terre 9-ui.to~e! ~s resprit est.une camera pataphysique qui speed to 1/infinity in order to catch the universal everlasting moment. Is mvente parfo~s ce qu il vo1t. L homme a mvente le temps. n suffit done there life after death? After all, space is only a concept. Is transcending de regler la Vltesse de la camera pataphysique sur l{mfini pour saisir le space and time possible? The notion of television may seem absurd to moment eternel et universe!. Y a-t-il une vie apres la mort? Apres tout, natives of the rainforest But the pataphysical camera has only one l'espace n'est qu'une representation de l'esprit. Peut-on transcender la moving part-the mind. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle questions notion d'espace et de temps? Pour les habitants de lajungle, l'idee de la the degree to which we affect our perception of things when we try to television est absurde! Mais la camera pataphysique n'a qu'une piece examine them. When did the notion of telekinesis first reach mobile: l'esprit. Et, selon le principe d'incertitude d'Heisenberg, I'esprit consciousness? Einstein pointed out that a triangle on the surface of a. modifie sa propre perception des choses des qu 'il essaie de les examiner. globe has 270 interior degrees. The flat earth 'society was appalled. These Quand l'idee de telekinesie s'est-elle formee pour la premiere fois? words were found written on the surface of a Mobius strip: "There is a lie Einstein soulignait que Ia somme des angles d'un triangle trace a 1a written on the other side of this paper." Playwright Alfred Jarry's insane surface du globe etait superieure a 180•. La societe pour la defense de 1a anti-hero Ubu has become a reporter for so-called news tabloids; Terre plate en etait horrifiee! "ll y a un mensonge sur I'autre oote de cette ''Mermaid Armada Attacks Nuclear Submarine off Virgin Islands." Our bande de papier," trouve-t-on ecnt sur une bande de Mobius. Ubu perception of the world has always been at least partly pataphysical and in I'anti-heros de l'absurde d' Alfred Jarry, est devenu le redacteur en'chef this issue of RAMPIKE we celebrate the wonder of the impossible. A des "tabloids"! ''Des sirenes attaquent un sous-marin nucleaire au large child may ask why the sky is blue, why the grass is green. Don't answer. des lles Vierges!" Notre perception du monde a toujours ete partiellement Instead, put your shoes on your head and jump through the window. pataphysique et, dans ce numero de RAMPIKE, nous celebrons les metveilles de 1'imaginaire. Si un enfant vous demande pourquoi le ciel est bleu, pourquoi l'herbe est verte, ne repondez pas.
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