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The Cybernetic Plot Of Ulysses
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A paper delivered at the CALIFORNIA JOYCE conference (6/30/93)
Good afternoon.
To quote the opening of Norbert Wiener's address on Cybernetics to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences in March of 1950, The word
cybernetics has been taken from the Greek word kubernitiz (ky-ber-NEE-tis)
meaning ....
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....ined the term. But like Moliere's Monsieur
Jourdain discovering that all along he's been speaking prose, so Leopold
Bloom might delight in learning that he is actually quite a proficient
cyberneticist. Joyce made his protagonist an advertizing canvasser at the
moment when advertizing had just entered the modern age. Bloom's job is to
put his clients' messages into forms that are digestible by the mass
medium of the press. If Bloom shows up in the National Library, for
instance, it will be to fin.... |
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