PATAPHYSICS | current | previous | books | online | links | orders | contact | Online pataphysics magazine What are you currently working on? responses from: DAVID SHAPIRO, SYLVÈRE LOTRINGER, JOHN CAGE, GERALD MURNANE, ACHILLE BONITO OLIVA, CARL ANDRE, CHARLES NORTH, HARRY ZOHN, BERNARD HEIDSIECK, PAUL VIOLI, DAVID HERKT, LAURA MULLEN,BO B BLACK, SARAH MORRIS, LEON GOLUB, CHRIS KRAUS, JUAN DAVILA, BRIAN ALDISS, RICHARD KOSTELANETZ, DANIEL SHAPIRO WITH DAVID SHAPIRO. pataphysics magazine WHITHER WHITY? Whither Whity, a film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder so obscure that even aficionados of the most famous and famously self-destructive German New Wave director are sometimes oblivious to its very existence? From its opening shot of a prostrate Günther Kaufmann clutching a flower over which .... pataphysics magazine I WAS FOUCAULT'S GIRLFRIEND 'It was really worth it,' Foucault thought, stepping out of the New York Public Library. To anyone else but him, of course, it would have sounded a little nutty, coming all the way from Sao Paolo to New York to examine an obscure Jesuit manual on child masturbation published in 1821. But it was all there - he chuckled - as he had assumed .... pataphysics magazine interview with Larry Clark And then I taped something of a kid who was being interviewed by Bryant Gumbel on Today. I edited it so you don't really know why he's there. They're talking about his story and things like that – he had like a very inspirational, heroic story. He's overcome all these odds, but you don't know why he's there.... pataphysics magazine interview with Gerhard Braunshausen, Craig Roberts, Richard Brown Entropy in a pure physical sense is simply a statement of the fact that the degree of disorder of any closed system always increases with time. Philosophers sometimes think about this sort of thing and try to take the idea of entropy from physics. With little background and no experience whatsoever, they take this completely out of context and try to use it to construct world-views... pataphysics magazine interview with Barry Sherman I went to hear a Hindu master talk in a Mason's hall. He was a westerner in the classic style of modern mystery cults – conspicuously conservative. They have no furniture, everything is clean and bare. In the hall was a coffee table and on the coffee table was a chopping board and a meat cleaver... pataphysics magazine interview with Peter Corrigan Spare me from world-weary ironic detachment. Fifty years ago Brecht wrote: 'He who smiles has not yet heard the bad news. When I was at the university that's struck an ironic chill through me. pataphysics magazine AREA MAN FOUND CRUCIFIED BY JOYCE CAROL OATES Discharged from the U.S. Army 'disability' pension and a loose flap of skin over the hole they bored in my skull. Don't tell me they didn't plant one of those... pataphysics magazine THE PRISM BY RANALD WHITE I was curious about a phone message recently. Wait, wait, wait but there was nothing. As it turned out there was a knock at the door this morning - my past. No-one knows it. The name's the thing that's been... pataphysics magazine SURVIVOR BY CHRIS KRAUS In America, survival was the only pleasure that Jerome allowed himself. To survive entailed elaborate planning. He had to look ahead, anticipate what necessities could eventually be withdrawn, and then... pataphysics magaczine Does your work have a moral significance? Responses from J.G. BALLARD, CHRISTO, BOB BLACK, HAKIM BEY, CEDRIC PRICE, HARRY ZOHN, EDUARDO CATALANO, JAY KINNEY, STANLEY TIGERMAN, TIMOTHY LEARY, JOHN CAGE, PETER SCHJELDAHL, LEON GOLUB, ALLEN GINSBERG, PETER PLATE pataphysics magazine interview Teddy Goldsmith "All considerations, whether they be social, ecological, or moral, are mercilessly subordinated to the overriding goal of maximizing world trade. Fortunately, I don't believe that this will last for long..." pataphysics magazine THE GENETIC BOMB: PAUL VIRILIO & SYLVÈRE LOTRINGER "More than twenty years ago you warned against the militarization of knowledge. At first mobilized to protect humanity, science is now in the process of destroying it..." pataphysics magazine interview Sylvère Lotringer "In an interview there's something very strange that happens – you bring out someone and you disappear yourself as an interviewer. 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There are so many factors here that I have to take into account..." pataphysics magazine Question: There has been evidence to suggest that objects can lose control when freed from the hold of their owners. What has been your experience of death? Responses from BRIAN ALDISS, LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI, EVELYN FIRCHOW, ROGER ZELAZNY, RICHARD KOSTELANETZ, ALEX KATZ, DANIEL LIBESKIND, PETER SCHJELDAHL, ANGE LECCIA, HARRY ZOHN. pataphysics magazine interview David Shapiro "Critics tend to typecast one. I've had the experience of writing a book in black paint, as it were, my almost suicidal House (Blown Apart), and having critics begin by typecasting me as a New York School Poet of whimsy and cheerfulness..." pataphysics magazine HOW TO BE PERFECT BY RON PADGETT "Take care of your teeth and gums..." 31 August 2011