Resistentialism

The Resistentialismus is the parody of a theory. He claims that inanimate things hostile behavior towards the people about perishing keys, escaping Flummibällen etc. The term was coined by the humorist Paul Jennings in The Spectator a text entitled "Report on Resistentialism " published in 1948.

The Resistentialismus sees itself as a parody of existentialism, especially on Jean -Paul Sartre, accordingly called Jennings as the alleged founder of the theory of a fictitious Frenchman, Pierre- Marie Ventre. The motto of the Resistentialisten is " Les choses sont contre nous" ( French: "Things are against us ").

A similar concept, called malice of the object, designs Friedrich Theodor Vischer in 1878 in his novel "Even one. A trip acquaintance ". This is the bizarre " A. E. " in a constant feud with all sorts of unruly objects of everyday life.

The idea of hostile objects also appears in the Discworld novels of English author Terry Pratchett, where the phenomenon english malignity or malignance called. The author gives the example of garden hoses, which - no matter how carefully you put them together and rolls preserved - roll up again overnight and socialize with Gordian knot of the bike on the lawn mower.

Also, the American author Thomas Pynchon is concerned with the polarity of animate and inanimate objects. In his novel V. is the protagonist of the belief that he could succeed only with animate objects round. Through throughout the novel blurs the line between animate and inanimate things, to alligators, who are convinced that it would have been their destiny to serve as children's toys.