Waxing pataphysical

I like Bryant's blog post on "remarks toward a theory of writing." A few juicy excerpts with my comments following:

"I have an imp of perversity in me.  I intentionally choose words that I know will provoke.  That provocation is not just a provocation towards whatever readers I might happen to have, but towards myself as well.  How can I manage to think?  How can I engender thought in myself?

"Lacanians don’t really interpret.... Rather, Lacanians instead interrupt. When they speak, they do so in a way that attends not to the conscious intentions of the analysand’s discourse, but to the polysemy, the homonyms, the equivocations, the gaps, the contradictions, etc., within that discourse.


"I suspect that something like this is at work in my practice of writing.  I am striving to startle and interrupt myself so that I might manage to think.  I’m trying to stutter.  Harman says writing should not be clear, so much as vivid.  Perhaps vivid writing means writing that startles and that therefore manages to engender thought.

"Feyerabend talks about how it is indispensable for thought to create an alternative universe with crazy and mad laws so as to see this universe.... The parallel world brings the lived world into relief, while also disclosing it as contingent or capable of being otherwise.  This is the real transcendental epoche, a mad pataphysics, that is also the condition for a revolutionary practice."

Being a provocateur myself I have affinity for the shock-jock aspect of writing. It stirs the pot, blends the spices, keeps the stew from sedimenting. And spurs new recipes. I also like the word interrupt instead of interpret, as it doesn't focus on conscious intent but all those hidden folds below the surface which leaves meaning open. I see this forum as one such alternative universe, one that explores and startles, and often stutters, but that opens us to new vistas, new ideas, and new words to express them. I like the implications in Bryant's phrase "transcendental epoche," how allowing for the unknown provokes a transcendental approach that is not transcendent. And I especially like the word pataphysics instead of metaphysics, a word he didn't coin but which meaning follows (from this source):

"pataphysics
noun ( used with a singular verb )
a supposed branch of philosophy or science that studies imaginary phenomena beyond the realm of metaphysics; the science of imaginary solutions."

I could call this blog such a supposed and imaginary realm of post (beyond) metaphysics. Maybe even integral pataphysical enaction?