#PATAPHYSICS

[jareckiworld]

Jean-Claude Silbermann — The Lesson (oil on cutout wooden panels, 1993)

[rustyboltzz]

Info: Agent 'Maw', previous Insurgency relations, now a CPOI at Site-17...

...and has a discovered ability that allows him to 'manifest' mouths over his body, which has proved useful in combat-type situations.

...is loyal to the Foundation despite his past relations with the Chaos Insurgency, and seems to regard its staff and practices within high regard.

Okay, so I don't usually post oc art, but I have so many pieces of this fella I need to throw into the web before they dissappear into the void forever.. Feel free to ask me questions about him!

[stoicmike]

All the problems of metaphysics can be reduced to the proposition “There’s a lot of shit that we will never know.” -- Michael Lipsey

[thousurroundingverdure]

[aleph-trix]

Small Pataphysics ramble

In the second episode of Admonition, AKA SCP-6747, there is a section written by Placeholder under Addendum 6474/I that serves as a sort of introduction to Pataphysics and several of its key concepts. Particularly, this section is very interesting to me

At first, the very obvious statement one can glean is that our world (the world of the author-entities) described is in itself partly fictional and has a higher dimension above it. In rebuttal to that, a person more familiar with the SCP wiki might bring up the existence of SCP-5500. Certainly, while SCP-5500 is said to be occurring within the “real world”, nothing like it actually happened IRL so perhaps there are reality-spaces that exist in between our universe and the SCP multiverse.

However the more interesting implication in this section comes in the form of the “narrative dimensions” described. Three types of realities are described in terms of narrative dimensions here: a 1D world (with one fictional dimension), a 2D world (the SCP world) (with one fictional dimension and one real dimension) and a 3D world (with two real dimensions and one fictional dimension).

The implication here is obvious, and while it may just be my interpretation I find it to be more interesting then the alternative, and that is that every single reality-space has atleast one fictional dimension and thus partly fictional. That POTENTIALLY, there is an infinite string of realities stacked on top of each other all of them fictional in small ways. And that includes us, our reality.

This is perhaps one of the biggest reasons why I love Pataphysics in SCP works and why it manages to set itself apart from all other sort of metafictional works. There is of course the scientific way the information is processed and presented but the way authors manage to explore certain themes and theories and philosophy in such a beautifully clinical way.

One thing that a lot of metafiction or self-referential fiction tends to not dwell upon is, how do WE know we’re not fictional? Or atleast partly fictional? How do we know there isn’t some higher layer of gods influencing us simply using their imagination. This small section manages to ask that question but instead of it being a question or the questioner even being us: it’s a fictional personal in a layer below us telling us the answer. Yes, I am fictional but so are you.

This section is not the focus of the article at all, simply being an explanation of how Pataphysics work to supplement the actual focus of the article (which you should go read for yourself by the way it’s really good.) but it is still really chilling. These thoughts are probably not original and have probably been talked about before but I just wanted to ramble a bit and neither Twitter or Discord has the proper word count so. :p

[greatforte1853]

Les Raisins verts (1963) and Père Ubu (1965), directed by Jean-Christophe Averty. they don't make tv like they used to

[shythalia]

SCP Wiki: We are announcing the writing contest for SCP-8000! The theme for this one is Fantasy! ^_^

SCP Community: Whoa! This means we'll have 9000 SCPs this year! *o*

SCP Foundation's Pataphysics Department: STOP WRITING MORE!!!!!

[your-fav-is-divorced]

Placeholder McDoctorate and the Pataphysics Department are now divorced. (for the best of all tbh)

Placeholder McDoctorate and The Pataphysics Department are Divorced!

[cornpone]

Uncle Michael's Posca and Jelly Roll Outlet

[brightshaw-shipper]

Hey! Which fandoms is Elias in? Does he like Star Trek, like Jack? Does he play video games? If so, which ones does he play?

Elias is obsessed with Star Wars. He keeps trying to steal lightsabers from Pataphysics and Jack keeps having to pickpocket them from him and put them back without anyone noticing.

Little does he know, Elias has a red saber tucked safely away in his nightstand drawer in case anything happens that should merit its use.

Another thing: Elias took lightsaber training classes (yes, those are a real thing) for eight years, and the first time he sparred with a partner at the Insurgency, the instructor had to stop them and tell him to "step back onto the mat when you stop fighting like a damn Jedi." (spoiler alert: he never did)

Hope this answers your question!

-Thaumiel

[sistersorrow]

I was surprised when I found out Placeholder McDoctorate is called that because his name was stolen by THE NAMELESS KIN OF THE WOODS BEYOND THE WORLDS cause my personal headcanon had always been that he was incomplete character that an SCP-001-SWANN entity had injected into the narrative before they'd even bothered to settle on a name for him

[jareckiworld]

Jean-Claude Silbermann — Jonas (oil paint on trimmed wood, 1992)

[random-conspiracy]

So in other words

A "Pataphor" is a level 3‽ (cuil) description of reality

Right???

I hate Pataphysics so fucking much guys ahshas

[zealthewhatever]

Remake of an old comic of mine

[teledyn]

"The real is produced from miniaturized cells, matrices, and memory banks, models of control - and it can be reproduced an indefinite number of times from these. It no longer needs to be rational, because it no longer measures itself against either an ideal or negative instance. It is no longer anything but operational. In fact, it is no longer really the real, because no imaginary envelops it anymore. It is a hyperreal, produced from a radiating synthesis of combinatory models in a hyperspace without atmosphere."

— Jean Baudrillard