Analogy / 'Pataphysics: Instruction

Our Analogy instruction is to take the attitude of fumisme; the attitude of play. The attitude of electracy starts with fumisme (class notes).

Archetype of Creative Process

1. An aggressive act or an act of disrespect (use of aggression).
2. Act of participation (use of negative capability)

From Class Notes

• Jarry’s figure of Ubu is appetite personified / personified resistance to order.
• We need to articulate an attitude in our design.
• Appropriation is parodic. We need to appropriate an object and use trope and irony to say something else with it.
• Our own position as a collective subject needs to be an aspect/feeling of the final design.
• Look at the accident space as potential sign.
• Back away from saying something specific to try to identify what the potential of the sign is (its fate).
• Caillois makes the transition to ‘pataphysics. Whenever there is a fascination of some sort, it can be broken down into parody.
• Need to break fascination with science / technics. The trance needs to be broken.
• Use trope to break out of the routine of the thing / the mechanism.
• Parody sets up the existing form (reality of a situation) and turns it.
• The first science we are turning in electracy is the engineer’s report
• Narrative form represents the articulation of the presence into the future (gives form to process).
• Start with genre of a report and its purpose, and then set-up the space for the electrate turn in logic (kehre)
• Obscenario / Conceit / Trope. Example: handbooks on how to write a scenario
• Our consultant reports should be articulated in the manner of a conceit but structured like a scenario.
• The consultant report gets at the ‘pataphysics of an event using a practical trope.
• Accident takes place within history.
• We need to be able to see the fatal strategy.
• What is the dimension that is the necessity of the event?
• Use the fourth inference principle to move through information: conduction.

INSTRUCTIONS

• General method is grammatology.
• Working by analogy.
• ’Pataphysics is the stepping stone to see what replaces metaphysics for electracy
• Reality is what our metaphysics gives to us to manipulate in order to make decisions in the world.
• We think with this reality.
• Bök is describing a bachelor machine: a phrase that sums up the invention of the avant-garde.
• Marchel Duchamp’s art piece The Large Glass embodies the process of parody and trope that we needs to guide our thinking in our Prezi realizations of our accident logic.
• Make terms up to disrupt/turn premises.
• Look at the science behind the accident logic—the technical discourse of the event—and extract from it. Take the term and define it as trope.
• Use specialized terms from other fields [the apoptosis of a cell, for example] and make an analogy to something common in reality. Create a relationship between the term, its scientific logic, and something else.
• Give more attention to the secret. We want to make our consulting report seductive. To do this, we have to make it cryptic.
• Do this by introducing a procedure—aleatory or mathematical.
• Look at the physical substance in the accident space, and do something conductive with it. Use the dictionary.
• Find the primary trope in the technical process associated with the accident and ‘distill the atmosphere out of the object.’
• We are designing from the connotative position, from the receivers position (the event space).