Editing 'Pataphysics (section)

=== The Collège de 'Pataphysique ===
The ''Collège de 'Pataphysique'', founded in 1948 in [[Paris]], France,{{sfnp|Brotchie|1995|p=11}} is "a society committed to learned and inutilious research".{{sfnp|Brotchie|1995|p=77}} (The word 'inutilious' is synonymous with 'useless'.) The motto of the college is {{langx|la|[[Eadem mutata resurgo]]}} ("I arise again the same though changed").

The permanent head of the college is the Inamovable Curator, Dr. Faustroll, assisted by Bosse-de-Nage (''Starosta''): both are fictional.{{sfnp|Brotchie|1995|p=39}}

The Vice-Curator is the "first and most senior living entity" in the college's hierarchy.{{sfnp|Hugill|2012|p=113}} The Vice-Curatrice {{As of|2018|lc=y}} is Tanya Peixoto{{sfnp|Hiebert|2018|p=96}} of the London Institute of 'Pataphysics and Bookartbookshop.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.patakosmos.com/tanya-peixoto/ |title=Fifth Magisterium of Her Magnificence Tanya Peixoto |website=patakosmos.com |access-date=7 May 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170712130012/https://www.patakosmos.com/tanya-peixoto/ |archive-date=12 July 2017}}</ref> She was elected in 2014 to succeed Her Magnificence Lutembi – a crocodile{{sfnp|Hugill|2012|p=38}}{{sfnp|Hiebert|2018|pp=72–73}} – who succeeded Opach,{{sfnp|Hiebert|2018|pp=81–83}} the Baron Mollet,{{sfnp|Hiebert|2018|pp=76–79}} and Doctor Sandomir.{{sfnp|Hiebert|2018|pp=134–135}}{{sfnp|Hiebert|2018|pp=109–111}}

[[Jean-Christophe Averty]] was appointed [[Satrap]] in 1990.

Publications of the college, generally called {{langx|la|Viridis Candela}} ("green candle"),{{sfnp|Hugill|2012|p=123}} include the ''Cahiers'', ''Dossiers'', the ''Subsidia Pataphysica'' and since September 2021, the ''Spéculations''.<ref>{{cite web |title=List of publications |website=Collège de 'Pataphysique |url=http://www.college-de-pataphysique.org/college/accueil_files/Patalogue_Avril_2010.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426110525/http://www.college-de-pataphysique.org/college/accueil_files/Patalogue_Avril_2010.pdf |archive-date=26 April 2012}}</ref>{{sfnp|Brotchie|1995|pp=102–104}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Journal - Collège de 'Pataphysique |url=https://www.college-de-pataphysique.fr/revue/?lang=en |access-date=2024-04-28 |website=www.college-de-pataphysique.fr}}</ref>

Notable members have included [[Marcel Duchamp]], [[Joan Miró]], [[Eugène Ionesco]],<ref name="The Guardian 2005">{{cite web |title=An introduction to 'Pataphysics |website=The Guardian |date=9 December 2005 |url=http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2005/dec/09/8 |access-date=8 October 2021}}</ref> Noël Arnaud, [[Jean Baudrillard]], [[Jean-Christophe Averty]], [[René Daumal]], [[Luc Étienne]], [[François Le Lionnais]], [[Jean Lescure]], [[Raymond Queneau]], [[Boris Vian]], [[Jacques Carelman]], [[Man Ray]], [[Max Ernst]], [[Julien Torma]], [[Roger Shattuck]], [[Marx Brothers|Groucho, Chico and Harpo Marx]], [[Philippe de Chérisey]], [[Rolando Villazón]], [[Fernando Arrabal]] and [[Gavin Bryars]].{{sfnp|Brotchie|1995|pp=10–31}} The [[Oulipo]] began as a subcommittee of the college.<ref>{{cite book |last=Motte |first=Warren |title=Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature |publisher=Dalkey Archive Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-56478-187-1 |page=1}}</ref>{{sfnp|Brotchie|1995|p=22}}