The Pattern That Demands Explanation For roughly three thousand years, each major technology of knowledge externalization — oral formulaic composition, writing, apprenticeship, formal pedagogy, digital demonstration — has provoked the same institutional response: practitioners of the prior mode declared that "real" thinking had been lost. Each time, the declaration was partially correct about what was … Continue reading What Counts as Thinking: Knowledge Externalization Beyond Prose
Why Can’t Anyone Escape Dublin? Joyce’s Ulysses and the Reality of Being Trapped
The Strange Pattern in Joyce's Day On June 16, 1904, three people share the same spaces in Dublin, but they live in completely different worlds. Stephen Dedalus pays twelve pounds to rent the Martello Tower from the British state. But Buck Mulligan has taken over—making breakfast, swimming, entertaining the English guest Haines. Stephen feels like … Continue reading Why Can’t Anyone Escape Dublin? Joyce’s Ulysses and the Reality of Being Trapped
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