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| NOTES 1 Michael Groden, Ulysses in Progress (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1977), 115-18. 2 See Darren Tofts & Murray McKeich, Memory Trade: A Prehistory of Cyberculture (North Ryde, New South Wales: A 21*C Book published by Interface, 1997); Donald F. Theall, "Beyond the Orality/Literacy Dichotomy: James Joyce and the Prehistory of Cyberspace" (available at: <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v002/2.3theall.html> and <http://www.trentu.ca/jjoyce>). 3 Cf.: "And so they went on, the fourbottle men, the analists, unguam and nunguam and lunguam again, their anschluss about her whosebefore and his whereafters and how she was lost away away in the fern and how he was founded deap on deep in anear, and the rustlings and the twitterings and the raspings and the snappings and the sighings and the paintings and the ukukuings and the (hist!) the springapartings and the (hast!) the bybyscuttlings and all the scandalmunkers and the pure craigs that used to be (up) that time living and lying and rating and riding round Nunsbelly Square. And all the buds in the bush. And the laughing jackass. Harik! Harik! Harik! The rose is white in the darik! And Sunfella's nose has got rhinoceritis from haunting the roes in the parik! So all rogues lean to rhyme (FW95.27). 4 See Derek Attridge, "Unpacking the Portmanteau, or Who's Afraid of Finnegans Wake ?," in On Puns: The Foundation of Letters, ed. Jonathan Culler (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988), 140-55; Donald F. Theall, Beyond the Word: Reconstructing Sense in the Joyce Era of Technology, Culture, and Communication (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995), and James Joyce's Techno-Poetics (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997). It is also useful to note that Duchamp, Apollinaire and others promoted Jacques Brisset's near deification of the pun in the second decade of the twentieth century. 5 See Douglas Davis, Art and The Future: A History/Prophecy of the Collaboration Between Science, Technology and Art (1973; rpt. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1975); Stewart Brand, The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT (New York/Toronto: Viking Penguin Inc, 1987). 6 David Hayman, ed., A First Draft Verson of "Finnegans Wake" (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963), 281. Original version of FW 614.19-22. 7 Jacques Derrida, "Two Words for Joyce: He War," in Postmodern Joyce: Essays from the French, ed. Derek Attridge and Daniel Ferrer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), 147. 8 Herbert Read, A Concise History of Modern Painting (New York: Praeger, 1959), 9 By 1931 Walter Benjamin was using the phrase "optical unconscious" in his "Small History of Photography." A more recent use of "optical unconscious," which takes exception with Benjamin, Rosalind E. Kraus, The Optical Unconscious (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1949), 178-9 is using a Lacanian-Freudian sense of unconscious, while Benajmin is closer to Gregory Bateson and ultimately to Joyce, since the optical unconscious is the virtual making visible of the social unconscious. 10 Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon, Understanding "Finnegans Wake": A Guide to the Narrative of James Joyce's Masterpiece (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1982) 92. 11 Text analysis software such as TACT with its wild card capability, its use of Booleans operators and other such search devices is of considerable value both in ferreting out these groups and in revealing many of the polysemic aspects of their interconnection. 12 The preceding four paragraphs have been adapted from a paper presented to a joint meeting of the Association of Canadian University Teachers of English and the Canadian Association for Computing in the Humanities. In the paper, which has been published by CACH, there are specific examples applying statistical programs from the Text Analysis and Concordancing Tool (TACT) to the interpretation of Finnegans Wake as well as a fuller amplification of the arguments surrounding the preceding four paragraphs. A complete text of the article may be found at their web site: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/chwp/theall/ |
| DONALD F. THEALL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE BOOK IN JOYCE'S DREAM VISION OF DIGICULTURE |