The Pataphysical Collider is the central instrument of the Dept.- a hybrid device where language, image and ideological debris  are accelerated toward collision until new particles, known as Quirks, are released.

Fragments of cultural material - poems, broadcasts, imagery, public memory etc. - are introduced into the chamber. Once inside, through a combination of post structural lenses and the glare of pataphysics, they are charged with opposing but equal energies: fact and fiction, witness and erasure etc.

The moment of impact produces bursts of unstable meaning.

 

 

 

CORE PROCESSES​

• Acquisition- Cultural samples are harvested and catalogued.

• Acceleration- Texts and images are exposed to theoretical pressure until interpretive instability is achieved.

• Collision- Materials meet at high conceptual velocity; observation begins as fragments escape.

• Decay Mapping- Emergent particles (Quirks) are logged, described and catalogued.

• Dissemination- Results are released through Dept. memos, field reports or accidental leaks.​

 

Each experiment is conducted under controlled irony and supervised uncertainty.

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SAFETY PROTOCOLS

• All personnel must wear protective skepticism at all times.

• Direct exposure to paradox may cause cognitive after-images, recursive thinking and spontaneous metaphor generation.

• Beware of semiotic turbulence or phenomenological drift during operation.

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