The Official bpNichol Archive - pataphysics https://www.bpnichol.ca/tags/pataphysics en Truth: A Book of Fictions https://www.bpnichol.ca/archive/documents/truth-book-fictions <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"> <div class="item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.bpnichol.ca/sites/default/files/images/Truth.jpeg" alt="" /></div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-document field-type-file field-label-hidden"> <div class="item even"><table class="sticky-enabled"> <thead><tr><th>Attachment</th><th>Size</th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr class="odd"><td><span class="file"><img class="file-icon" alt="PDF icon" title="application/pdf" src="/modules/file/icons/application-pdf.png" /> <a href="https://www.bpnichol.ca/sites/default/files/archives/document/Truth%20optimized.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=10043754">Truth optimized.pdf</a></span></td><td>9.58 MB</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>Truth: A Book of Fictions</em>. Edited by Irene Niechoda. Toronto: The Mercury Press, 1993. 177 pages. </p></div> </div> Wed, 26 Aug 2020 20:59:05 +0000 gbetts 224 at https://www.bpnichol.ca https://www.bpnichol.ca/archive/documents/truth-book-fictions#comments Critical Frame of Reference (1985) https://www.bpnichol.ca/archive/documents/critical-frame-reference-1985 <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"> <div class="item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.bpnichol.ca/sites/default/files/images/bp%20frame.jpeg" alt="" /></div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-document field-type-file field-label-hidden"> <div class="item even"><table class="sticky-enabled"> <thead><tr><th>Attachment</th><th>Size</th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr class="odd"><td><span class="file"><img class="file-icon" alt="PDF icon" title="application/pdf" src="/modules/file/icons/application-pdf.png" /> <a href="https://www.bpnichol.ca/sites/default/files/archives/document/Critical%20Frame%20of%20Reference%201985.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=300974">Critical Frame of Reference 1985.pdf</a></span></td><td>293.92 KB</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"Critical Frame of Reference." First Edition. Toronto: "Pataphysical Hardware Company, 1985.</p><p>Catalogue Item #22. F(ixed)R(reference)A(nd)M(eaning)E(xplainer)</p></div> </div> Fri, 12 Jun 2020 14:38:45 +0000 gbetts 223 at https://www.bpnichol.ca https://www.bpnichol.ca/archive/documents/critical-frame-reference-1985#comments Thought Suppressant (1985) https://www.bpnichol.ca/archive/documents/thought-suppressant-1985 <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"> <div class="item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.bpnichol.ca/sites/default/files/images/Supressent.jpeg" alt="" /></div> </div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Thought Suppressant. Toronto: Pataphysical Hardware Company, 1985. </p><p>Produced for L’Affaire Pataphysique, May ‘85.</p></div> </div> Thu, 04 Jun 2020 19:46:54 +0000 gbetts 222 at https://www.bpnichol.ca https://www.bpnichol.ca/archive/documents/thought-suppressant-1985#comments Plaster de Paris (1985) https://www.bpnichol.ca/archive/documents/plaster-de-paris-1985 <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"> <div class="item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.bpnichol.ca/sites/default/files/images/bp%20Jarry%201.jpeg" alt="" /></div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-document field-type-file field-label-hidden"> <div class="item even"><table class="sticky-enabled"> <thead><tr><th>Attachment</th><th>Size</th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr class="odd"><td><span class="file"><img class="file-icon" alt="PDF icon" title="application/pdf" src="/modules/file/icons/application-pdf.png" /> <a href="https://www.bpnichol.ca/sites/default/files/archives/document/Plaster%20de%20Paris%20First%20Edition.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=132050">Plaster de Paris First Edition.pdf</a></span></td><td>128.96 KB</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Plaster de Paris. Toronto: Pataphysical Hardware Company, 1985. First edition.</p><p>Catalogue Item #61.</p><p>"For those nights you can't remember."</p></div> </div> Thu, 04 Jun 2020 14:05:56 +0000 gbetts 220 at https://www.bpnichol.ca https://www.bpnichol.ca/archive/documents/plaster-de-paris-1985#comments Critical Frame of Reference (1992) https://www.bpnichol.ca/archive/documents/critical-frame-reference-1992 <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"> <div class="item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.bpnichol.ca/sites/default/files/images/Critical%20Frame%20of%20Reference.jpeg" alt="" /></div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-document field-type-file field-label-hidden"> <div class="item even"><table class="sticky-enabled"> <thead><tr><th>Attachment</th><th>Size</th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr class="odd"><td><span class="file"><img class="file-icon" alt="PDF icon" title="application/pdf" src="/modules/file/icons/application-pdf.png" /> <a href="https://www.bpnichol.ca/sites/default/files/archives/document/Critical%20Frame%20of%20Reference.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=8370633">Critical Frame of Reference.pdf</a></span></td><td>7.98 MB</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"Critical Frame of Reference." Toronto: "Pataphysical Hardware Company, 1992. </p><p>Catalogue Item #22. Second Edition. Original 1985. </p><p>F(ixed)R(reference)A(nd)M(eaning)E(xplainer)</p></div> </div> Sat, 30 May 2020 15:04:50 +0000 gbetts 219 at https://www.bpnichol.ca https://www.bpnichol.ca/archive/documents/critical-frame-reference-1992#comments Plaster de Paris https://www.bpnichol.ca/archive/documents/plaster-de-paris <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"> <div class="item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.bpnichol.ca/sites/default/files/images/Plaster%20de%20Jarry.jpeg" alt="" /></div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-document field-type-file field-label-hidden"> <div class="item even"><table class="sticky-enabled"> <thead><tr><th>Attachment</th><th>Size</th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr class="odd"><td><span class="file"><img class="file-icon" alt="PDF icon" title="application/pdf" src="/modules/file/icons/application-pdf.png" /> <a href="https://www.bpnichol.ca/sites/default/files/archives/document/Plaster%20de%20Paris.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=2247929">Plaster de Paris.pdf</a></span></td><td>2.14 MB</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Plaster de Paris. Toronto: Pataphysical Hardware Company, 1992. </p><p>Catalogue Item #61. Jarry Brand.</p></div> </div> Sat, 30 May 2020 14:52:54 +0000 gbetts 218 at https://www.bpnichol.ca https://www.bpnichol.ca/archive/documents/plaster-de-paris#comments Papers Delivered at The Symposium of Linguistic Onto-Genetics https://www.bpnichol.ca/archive/documents/papers-delivered-symposium-linguistic-genetics <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"> <div class="item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.bpnichol.ca/sites/default/files/images/Pages%20from%20Papers%20Delivered%20at%20the%20Symposium.jpg" alt="" /></div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-document field-type-file field-label-hidden"> <div class="item even"><table class="sticky-enabled"> <thead><tr><th>Attachment</th><th>Size</th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr class="odd"><td><span class="file"><img class="file-icon" alt="PDF icon" title="application/pdf" src="/modules/file/icons/application-pdf.png" /> <a href="https://www.bpnichol.ca/sites/default/files/archives/document/Papers%20Delivered%20at%20the%20Symposium.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=16807551">Papers Delivered at the Symposium.pdf</a></span></td><td>16.03 MB</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong>Papers Delivered at The Symposium of Linguistic Onto-Genetics held in Toronto, Canada November 20, 21, 1981.</strong></p><p><strong>Together with papers undelivered at Un Fair not held in Toronto, Canada January 28th, 1984.</strong></p><p><strong>To which is appended A Correspondence relating to UN FAIR &amp; L’AFFAIRE ”PATAPHYSIQUE.</strong></p><p>Toronto: grOnk Final Series #5 (March 1985).<br />134 pages, printed in an edition of 100 copies.</p><p>Colophon: "Distributed in the great / now-you-see-it-now-you-don't / tradition by / grOnk"</p><p> </p><p><em>Table of Contents</em></p><p>bpNichol “A Brief Introduction”</p><p>Michael Dean “An Introduction from the Chair”</p><p>A Note on the Logo</p><p>Schedule of Events</p><p> </p><p><em><strong>The Symposium of Linguistic Onto-Genetics</strong></em></p><p>Michael Dean “The Imagination of Aldo Breun”</p><p>bpNichol “Digging up the Pas t”</p><p>Richard Truhlar “The Problemmatic Stasis of Macrosyntactical Structure in Language”</p><p>Gaylord Wordsmith III “Machine Language / Heart Language”</p><p>Adrian Fortesque “Archeo-Linguistics Only a Stone’s Throw”</p><p>Steve McCaffery “The Perseus Project: Paleogorgonization and the Sexual Life of Fossils”</p><p>Janine Mathee “The Alphabet Speaks”</p><p>Delegates</p><p>Photos by Michael Collins</p><p> </p><p><em><strong>Papers to have been delivered at UN FAIR</strong></em></p><p>Lleddir Nhah-Nhoj “The Straytext Device: Pure and Applied Research in Mutational Field Theory”</p><p>Bibliography</p><p>bpNichol “From The Ferniss of History: Proto-Fern Texts: Windows on Meaning”</p><p>Adrian Fortesque “The Un Fair”</p><p>Brian Dedora “The Leap at the Lansdowne Subway Station”</p><p> </p><p><em><strong>A Correspondence relating to UN FAIR &amp; L’AFFAIRE ”PATAPHYSIQUE.</strong></em></p><p>Letters between Lleddir Nhah-Nhoj, Michael Dean, and John Riddell.</p></div> </div> Thu, 05 Apr 2018 00:39:09 +0000 gbetts 173 at https://www.bpnichol.ca https://www.bpnichol.ca/archive/documents/papers-delivered-symposium-linguistic-genetics#comments ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE https://www.bpnichol.ca/archive/documents/rose-rose-rose <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"> <div class="item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.bpnichol.ca/sites/default/files/images/A%20Rose%20is%20a%20rose%20front.jpg" alt="" /></div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-document field-type-file field-label-hidden"> <div class="item even"><table class="sticky-enabled"> <thead><tr><th>Attachment</th><th>Size</th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr class="odd"><td><span class="file"><img class="file-icon" alt="PDF icon" title="application/pdf" src="/modules/file/icons/application-pdf.png" /> <a href="https://www.bpnichol.ca/sites/default/files/archives/document/ROSE%20IS%20A%20ROSE.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1368774">ROSE IS A ROSE.pdf</a></span></td><td>1.31 MB</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE.</em></p><p>Envelope containing seeds and a stick with rubber stamped instructions. </p><p>Toronto: Pataphysical Hardware Company Catalogue Item #41, n.d..</p><p> </p><p><em>Thanks to Schuster Gindin (<a href="http://livingtorontojournal.com/">http://livingtorontojournal.com/</a>) for the material.</em></p></div> </div> Sat, 12 Mar 2016 02:26:23 +0000 gbetts 154 at https://www.bpnichol.ca https://www.bpnichol.ca/archive/documents/rose-rose-rose#comments Catalogue of the "Pataphysical Hardware Company https://www.bpnichol.ca/archive/documents/catalogue-pataphysical-hardware-company <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"> <div class="item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.bpnichol.ca/sites/default/files/images/%27%27PataphysicalCatalogue_002_R.JPG" alt="" /></div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-document field-type-file field-label-hidden"> <div class="item even"><table class="sticky-enabled"> <thead><tr><th>Attachment</th><th>Size</th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr class="odd"><td><span class="file"><img class="file-icon" alt="PDF icon" title="application/pdf" src="/modules/file/icons/application-pdf.png" /> <a href="https://www.bpnichol.ca/sites/default/files/archives/document/Catalogue%20of%20the%20%27%27Pataphysical%20Hardware%20Company.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=2699764">Catalogue of the &#039;&#039;Pataphysical Hardware Company.pdf</a></span></td><td>2.57 MB</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Catalogue of the "Pataphysical Hardware Company.<br />1985. Second Edition (Revised by jwcurry). 1992.</p><p>bpNichol Prop.</p><p>"Everything for your imaginary needs."</p><p>Comprised of Speech &amp; Thot Series, Hardwarre Series, Concepts Series.</p><p>Notes: (Source: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/48593922@N04/6625958589">jwcurry</a>)<br /> </p><p>First Edition: 18 may 1985. 2oo copies?<br />Second Edition: 3 April 1992. 109 copies.</p><p>First Edition: 7 x 8-1/2, 2 sheets white xerographic bond folded &amp; stapled twice to 8 pp in selfwrappers, all printed black photocopy.<br />Second Edition: 7 x 8-1/2, 2 sheets white plainfield folded &amp; stapled twice to 8 pp in selfwrappers, all printed black photocopy with red addition to front cover.</p><p>Cover by bpNichol.</p><p>Contents:</p><p>i) [''Pataphysical Hardware Company logo] (front cover)</p><p>ii) <strong>CONSTANTLY ACCUSED OF BEING THOUGHTLESS?</strong> (ad for<em>Tho(ugh)t Balloons</em>, inside front cover)</p><p>iii) <strong>HEY! SERIOUS THINKER!</strong> (ad for <em>Tho(ugh)t Holder</em>, inside front cover)</p><p>iv) "<strong>In response to an overwhelming public</strong>" (prose introduction, p.1)</p><p>v) <strong>OWN YOUR VERY OWN</strong> (ad for <em>Speech Balloons</em> (never produced), p.2)</p><p>vi) Poetry Lovers (ad for <em>Genuine Brand Blank Verse</em>, p.2)</p><p>vii) <strong>NOW!!</strong> (ad with graphic for <em>Double-ended pencil</em>, p.2)</p><p>viii) <strong>Catalogue of the ''PATAPHYSICAL HARDWARE COMPANY</strong>(complete list, pp.3&gt;inside rear cover; in 7 parts:</p><p>–1) <strong>SPEECH &amp; THOT SERIES</strong> (4 items, p.3)</p><p>–2) <strong>HARDWARE SERIES</strong> (2 items, p.3)</p><p>–3) <strong>CONCEPTS SERIES</strong> (5 items, p.3)</p><p>–4) <strong>serViCes</strong> (2 items, p.4)</p><p>–5) <strong>REFERENCE SERIES</strong> (9 items, p.4)</p><p>–6) <strong>NON SERIES</strong> (no items, inside rear cover)</p><p>–7) <strong>LEISURE LIVING SERIES</strong> (5 items inside rear cover))</p><p>ix) <strong>Inspirational Lights</strong> (ad for the matchbooks in the <em>Leisure Living Series</em>, p.3)</p><p>x) <strong>PLANNED</strong> (ad for the "Living-References-Bring-Em-Back-Alive" series, p.4)</p><p>xi) <strong>COMING</strong> (ad for "The Grow-Your-Own-References Series", p.4)</p><p>xii) <strong>?A NIGHT ON THE TOWN?</strong> (ad with graphics for <em>Plaster de Paris</em>, inside rear cover)</p><p>xiii) "<strong>REGULAR USERS OF THIS</strong>" (illustrated joke column, as by "Triste Zara", inside rear cover)</p><p>xiv) <strong>from "S, A's"</strong>, as by "A.Gold &amp; N.Guppy" (concrete poem, rear cover)</p><p> </p><p>Notes to the Second Edition:</p><p>By<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/48593922@N04/6582298099"> jwcurry</a>: "the revisions -- all by jwcurry -- consist of a few error &amp; date corrections &amp; annotations to the listings reflecting availability"</p></div> </div> Sun, 06 Sep 2015 18:21:37 +0000 gbetts 94 at https://www.bpnichol.ca https://www.bpnichol.ca/archive/documents/catalogue-pataphysical-hardware-company#comments