Of Uselessness Macedonio Fernandez's and Alfred Jarry's 'Pataphysical Technologies

Abstract

In the light of the Archive as it’s developed in The Archeology of Knowledge, this article reviews how the Comte’s positive philosophy was questioned at the end of the Ninetieth-Century, in its pretendedly attempt to “mechanizing” (in a Newtonian way) the humanist sciences, focusing in the epistemic how instead of the why research. In this sense, as the Jarry’s ‘Pataphysics as the Macedonio’s “philosophic fiction” (and indeed, the most part of his literary work) questions that epistemology under the suspicion that science replace the acknowledgment research to utilitarianism purposes.