Because the concept of “objective fact” may not be upheld, no longer even within the unique sciences, the three ordinary Stoppages have been in his eyes simply as legitimate because the overseas prototype meter, the results of years of painstaking measurements, that used to be saved on the Bureau overseas des Poids et Mesures in Sèvres. The artist Duchamp derived no finish of delight from undermining the “realism” of the medical view of the realm. “It used to be simply the concept lifestyles will be extra attention-grabbing in case you may perhaps stretch this stuff [the legislation of physics and chemistry] a bit. in spite of everything, we need to settle for those so-called legislation of technology since it makes lifestyles less demanding, yet that doesn’t suggest whatever as far as validity is concerned,” Duchamp as soon as acknowledged, summarizing his epistemologically pessimistic and antiscientific perspectives, fullyyt within the sort of his Bergsonian comrade in fingers Édouard Le Roy. 114 The challenge of the clinical suggestion of fact Maybe it’s all simply an phantasm. we're so keen on ourselves, we expect we're little gods of the earth—I have my doubts approximately it, that’s all. The notice ‘law’ is opposed to my rules. technology is obviously a closed circuit, yet each fifty years or so a brand new ‘law’ is came across that alterations every little thing. I simply didn’t see why we should always have such reverence for technological know-how, and so I needed to supply one other type of pseudo rationalization. I’m a pseudo all in all, that’s my attribute. I by no means may possibly stand the seriousness of existence, but if the intense is tinted with humor it makes a nicer colour. 60 it's this pseudo-ness that's constantly current every time Duchamp thematizes clinical legislation and theories. His scan with the 3 threads, too, is a pseudo-experiment; it belongs now not on the earth of physics yet in that of “hypophysics”61 or pataphysics. As Duchamp himself acknowledged, in his lecture “A Propos of Myself,” the three normal Stoppages solid “a pataphysical doubt at the thought of a immediately line as being the shortest path from one aspect to a different. ”62 The challenge of the medical proposal of fact a hundred and fifteen 7  | Pataphys ic s, C han c e, an d th e Ae sth etic s o f th e Po ss i b le T he seminal paintings of pataphysics is Alfred Jarry’s “neo-scientific novel,” Exploits and reviews of health professional Faustroll, Pataphysician, first released, posthumously, in 1911. “Book Eight,” entitled “Ethernité”1 and starting with the bankruptcy “Concerning the Measuring rod, the Watch, and the Tuning Fork,” had already seemed as a preprint within the journal Vers et Prose in autumn 1910. 2 during this novel, Jarry defines the hot self-discipline of pataphysics as “the technological know-how of imaginary ideas. . . . pataphysics might be, principally, the technology of the actual, regardless of the typical opinion that the one technological know-how is that of the overall. Pataphysics will learn the legislation governing exceptions, and may clarify the universe supplementary to this one. ”3 The technological know-how of pataphysics, in different phrases, is a technology of exceptions, dealing in basic terms with the actual and setting up the legislation that distinguish targeted phenomena from basic phenomena.