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| louis armand THEORY transitional notes, articles, comment the cyclops & the gnomon in a series of seminars conducted between 1949 and 1960, Lacan increasingly comes to identify language with the structure of the Freudian unconscious and consciousness with materiality. from hypertext to vortext / notes on materiality & language the question of materiality remains as pressing as ever in current discussions of textual genetics and hypertext, and it is the objective of this paper to provide something like a notational framework within which we might effectively engage with this question without descending either into classical hermeneutics, epistemology or empiricism, while at the same time enlisting certain aspects of their conceptual infrastructures to the work of textual theory-above all to a theory of hypertextuality. symptom in the machine: lacan, joyce, sollers it is in a later seminar, in 1954, that jacques lacan, reflecting on the technics of the mirror dialectic, assigns a "materialist definition" to the phenomenon of consciousness by means of a metaphor of a particular type of photography. hamlet/machine in the last chapter of the traumdeuting, freud describes a dream in which a father encounters in his sleep the ghost of his dead son ... strange attractions: the techno-poetics of hypertext at the north american centre for interdisciplinary poetics (nacip) enzymes, reverse transcriptions & the technogeneses of finnegans wake genetic joyce studies 2 (spring 2002) transversions of the contemporary: introduction to litteraria pragensia 11.22 (2002), 'contemporary poetics' from mallarm�, and continuing to the present time, the poetics of the "contemporary" has been entangled in controversy by those who stake claims to its foundational moments ... through a glass darkly: reflections on the other joyce (introduction to giacomo joyce: envoys of the other, ed. louis armand & clare wallace. bethesda: academica, 2002) since its publication in 1968, the critical reception of giacomo joyce has been defined largely by a concern with biographical placement, stylistic transitions and the vicissitudes of authorial intention. incendiary devices: notes on derrida, lacan, heidegger "the speculative is the reflection (speculum) of the holocaust's holocaust, the blaze reflected and cooled by the glass, the ice, the mirror." books of sand: james joyce & the inventions of hypertext still speaking in a low voice, the stranger said, "it can't be, but it is. the number of pages in this book is no more or less than infinite. none is the first page, none the last." enzymes, reverse transcription, & the technogeneses of finnegans wake "there is no genetics without 'genetic drift.' The modern theory of mutations has clearly demonstrated that a code, which necessarily relates to a population, has an essential margin of decoding..." from memex to hypertext: joycean topologies & cybernetics the theoretical prototype of modern hypertext was first described in an article by vannevar bush in 1945, in the atlantic monthly. the art of war: declarations of the other in his introduction to husserl�s origin of geometry, derrida describes Joyce's writing as an attempt ?"to repeat and take responsibility for all equivocity itself, utilising a language that could equalise the greatest possible synchrony..." some notes on joycean hypertext: machine--tra(ns)versal--acrostic anticipating the increased significance of hypertext in james joyce scholarship, jacques derrida, in his essay on finnegans wake, invokes the term "joyceware," suggesting that we might approach joyce's writing as "a hypermnesiac machine,"... romantic ecolgies: john kinsella and the art of traumatic realism in the title chapter of his recent book, the return of the real: the avant-garde at the end of the century, art critic hal foster introduces the term traumatic realism ... the eternal return & some machinations of the gaze in paul leppin, severin's journey into the dark in nietzsche et le cerle vicieux, pierre klossowski asks: how can a doctrine of the eternal return even be possible ... solicitations: mcluhan, joyce & the question concerning technology "the gutenberg galaxy, a book which redirected the way many theorists viewed the role of technological mediation in communication processes, had its origin in marshall mcluhan's desire to write a book called the road to finnegans wake." deus ex machina (the dramatic effects of the play-within-a-play in shakespeare and marlowe) what could this mean, the dramatic effects of the play-within-a-play? does it indicate dramatic effects that are generated by the play-within-a-play, deriving from it, or does it indicate dramatic effects that are somehow intrinsic to the play-within-a-play, and so remaining within it? or does the of in this case signify both at once; both within and without and therefore on the seam? spectres of sovereignty: (an)notations on the colonial subject in joyce's portrait in an often cited passage of joyce's a portrait of the artist as a young man, a classic moment in the linguistic double-bind of the colonial subject is played out. from modernism & the european avant-garde: notes towards an ergonomics of the sign machine metaphors abound in literature from the earliest times, but have proliferated in european literature since the time of the industrial revolution. |