Second Congress of the Third International Gathering of ’Pataphysics. 1922.

Delegates at the Second Congress of the Third International Gathering of ’Pataphysics. 1922. Tunbridge Wells.


Manifesto of the Second Congress of the Third International Gathering of ’Pataphysics. 1922.

1. Delegates agree that ’Pataphysics, with its variations, is one of the most wonderful things, and is always present everywhere.
2. Delegates agree ’Pataphysicians aim to improve the minds of the young in our acrimonious and utilitarian world.
3. Delegates agree that thought processes grow out of the technology of writing and that therefore ’Pataphysic writing must be a vehicle for introducing new ideas.
4. Delegates agree to abandon the Socratic pursuit of truth for its own sake on the grounds that the world is fundamentally unknowable and the Socratic pursuit of truth is biased towards established paradigms.
5. Delegates agree that ’Pataphysics can never be certain of both position and momentum and that the fundamental assumption that two parallel lines will extend indefinitely and never meet is counter intuitive.
6. Delegates agree to ’Pataphysic implementation using technologies with a predictable, transparent maximum aggregate cost which will drive global adoption and foster the social and economical growth of illuminated popular literature, church Latin, erotic books without spelling, novels of our foremothers, fairy tales, little books for children, old operas, silly refrains, naïve rhythms.
7. Delegates agree that within the current framework the fundamental mystification of ’Pataphysics is to associate ideas of fulfillment with objects (televisions, garden furniture, automobiles, etc) so that social action takes the form of the action of objects.
8. Delegates agree that to change the world and society the life changes that limited the liberatory possible want. Possible that these changes, all actions by using this information so that things that were once directly lived are now lived by proxy.
9. Delegates agree that working with ’Pataphysics, psychology and art, more or less safe and the risks. The current idea that a successful, modern thought away from such positions and varied, with many disciplines and years about the time maintain new and exciting events that undermine.
10. Delegates agree the rejection of the project to cover the absurd result of sensitivity? Both cheap original and creative book is nearly everything, Jarry, as the force and, in particular, Ubu, a sentence, a song book, printed as an exact contemporary new direction in the future, they see only shadows.