…Canada, he really seemed to spawn no highly visible successors, was a unique personality and breakthrough, much in the same way that Joyce was a unique personality and spawned very few imitators. And the irony of all this is that McLuhan did his journeyman…

…his journeyman work before he burst onto the world stage as this mysterious savant of media. He did his work as a Joyce Scholar. That's what he was. Literary critic, Joyce Scholar, medievalist, that sort of thing. And then in the early fifties or middle…

…world stage as this mysterious savant of media. He did his work as a Joyce Scholar. That's what he was. Literary critic, Joyce Scholar, medievalist, that sort of thing. And then in the early fifties or middle fifties, he wrote a book, which I've never…

…the books I'm reading from and talking about, and then I'll actually read you a section of McLuhan, because it's a, like Joyce, it's a stylistic thing that you can't really encompass without getting your feet wet. This was his best known book, probably,…

…triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave. So there's a lot of fun in McLuhan, and this comes out of his being a Joyce scholar. You just can't mess with that without fun. This is his third book with Harley through the vanishing point space in…

…brought back to me he was a convert to Catholicism and an extraordinarily complex intellectual, with a medievalist who became a Joyce scholar, who became a communications expert. And in McLuhan, there is a very deep strain of nostalgia for the essence of…

…complex clairvoyance in these matters. His Leopold Bloom of Ulysses, a man of many ideas and many devices, is a freelance salesman. Joyce saw the parallels on one hand between the modern frontier of the verbal and the pictorial, and on the other between…

…to the Masons is to the world of the brick layer as a type of speech itself. On the second page of the wake Joyce is making a mosaic, an Achilles shield, as it were, of all the themes and modes of human speech and communication. Beigmeister Finnegan…

…lived in the broadest way imaginable. In his rush lit too far back for massages before Joshua and judges had given us numbers. Joyce is in the wake, making his own Altamira cave drawings of the entire history of the human mind in terms of its basic…

…fin cycle of tribal institutions can return in the electric age. But if again, then let's make it awake, or awake, or both. Joyce could see no advantage in our remaining locked up in each cultural cycle as in a trance or dream, he discovered the means…

…or profane and civilized. So that's his comment. Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic. These people, Joyce, to some degree, pound, McLuhan, they were the prophets of the world in which we now understand, the world of integrated…

…expounding to his audience. There is a great body of reporterata which constitute a very complex problem for editors. So really, like for Joyce, for McLuhan, the book is the central symbol of the age, the central mystery of our time. In a sense, I sort…

…a very explicit and very early image of what, in Finnegan's wake we get where he says, man will be dirigible. This is now how Joyce does it, only eleven years later. We go from I would be a thing of gold and gold enameling to man will be dirigible.…

Well, he didn't. Joyce put these words into the mouth of Stephen Dedalus, who said, history is the nightmare from which I am trying to awaken, showing that Joyce could write because he didn't put the participle where it would dangle. But this was in…

…these words into the mouth of Stephen Dedalus, who said, history is the nightmare from which I am trying to awaken, showing that Joyce could write because he didn't put the participle where it would dangle. But this was in Ulysses. I think Joyce came to…

…awaken, showing that Joyce could write because he didn't put the participle where it would dangle. But this was in Ulysses. I think Joyce came to terms with all this ten years later in the wake. I mean, the wake I'm now speaking of. Finnegan's wake was…

…parked. It's that simple, you see, but it takes courage to be parked when the grim reaper draws near. A blessing in disguise, Joyce calls him. So to me, what psychedelics point out and where I think society will go once they are integrated to the point…

…art, poetry, myth making, these are the things that point the way toward the realm of being, of the eschaton. That is what Joyce means when he says man may become dirigible. In other words, man may be released into a realm of pure engineering. The…

…this ultimate compression is, the scale, what it means. I mean, like, one way I imagine it, and that's why I love to quote Joyce about man becomes dirigible. I imagine it as the day when your mind becomes your home. You know, and all over the world,…

…he really seemed to spawn no highly visible successors. It was a unique personality and breakthrough, much in the same way that Joyce was a unique personality and spawned very few imitators. And the irony of all this is that McLuhan did his journeyman…

…his journeyman work before he burst onto the world stage as this mysterious savant of media. He did his work as a Joyce scholar. That's what he was. Literary critic, Joyce Scholar, medievalist, that sort of thing. And then in the early fifties or middle…

…world stage as this mysterious savant of media. He did his work as a Joyce scholar. That's what he was. Literary critic, Joyce Scholar, medievalist, that sort of thing. And then in the early fifties or middle fifties, he wrote a book, which I've never…

…the books I'm reading from and talking about, and then I'll actually read you a section of McLuhan, because it's a. Like Joyce, it's a stylistic thing that you can't really encompass without getting your feet wet. This was his best known book, probably,…

…as Descartes rode the mechanical wave. So there's a lot of fun in McLuhan, and this comes out of his being a Joyce scholar. You just can't mess with that without fun. This is his third book with Harley Parker through the vanishing point space…

…will see that the city of Belem in Brazil, the city of. Of Bethlehem. Is situated in the delta of the Amazon. Well, I'm Joyce scholar and river freak enough to know that all rivers are female. And if you're too dense to know that, certainly the Amazon…

…be parked. It's that simple you see but it takes courage to be parked when the grim reaper draws near. A blessing in disguise, Joyce calls it. So to me what psychedelics point out and where I think society will go once they are integrated to the point…

…art, poetry, myth making these are the things that point the way toward the realm of being of the eschaton. That is what Joyce means when he says man may become dirigible in other words man may be released into a realm of pure engineering. The…

…20s? Personally I don't, but I've only been here for six months. We don't yet have a stein, a Hemingway, a Faulkner a Joyce a Picasso. An established one no but I'm not saying there isn't a nascent one well they're here somewhere selling sandwiches on…

…Dublin and he buys some kidneys. He also has some conversations with some people and has a pint at his local pub. But Joyce was into this historical resonance business. So Leopold Bloom in the Dublin of 1905 trying to buy kidneys for breakfast is the…

…brook I used to have an English Teacher who began each class by saying: I'll brook no babbling must have had the Joyce Meme. Well, these things are very suggestive and very important to the larger interpretation of all this stuff which I'm trying to…

…used language to layer resonance in the same way that we have been talking here about how the world is made that way Joyce did the same thing. Essentially what I'm arguing is the kind of allegorical view of reality. You know, the genius of Ulysses,…

…scholar in residence is Finnegan's wake and we've been taking it apart and looking at it and noticing that part of the genius of Joyce in the way the wake is composed is that all terms are transparent, every word you can see through it to other words,…

…of modern literature is about. Yeah, well, trapped in artifice, trapped in art I mean in a sense yeah that's why Proust and Joyce, who are so different, can be seen to be essentially about the same thing. A true rendering of experience is very hard. I…

…on this belim is bethlehem. It lies at the delta of the Amazon Delta, the symbol for change in time. Delta in Joyce and among graffiti artists throughout history, represents the vagina. Dennis was born in delta, Colorado. Was it possible that all of our…

…1912. Harner, Michael, the sound of rushing water natural history, July 1968. Huxley, Aldous: the doors of perception, Joyce James, Finnegan's wake, London 1939. Ulysses Ditto, slightly earlier, yonch, Eric, the self organizing universe, Jung, Carl Gustav,…

…the most complete understanding of the relation of the human mind to the time and space around it and that therefore Joyce, at his death, had somehow been shouldered with the responsibilities of overseeing this part of god's universe. In this Dennis was…

…as Dennis called the newly revealed deity and his consort were in and through everything at lotcherer, particularly in the things that Joyce had loved. The little hen as the symbol of Anna Olivia Plouribel of the wake was one of these things. It was…

…radiated outward from the path that he had followed. These ideas were absurd but delightful and they led me eventually to re read Joyce and to accept him as one of the true pioneers in the mapping of hyperspace. They did not, however shed much light on…

…compare it to gravity's rainbow or crying of lot 49 well crying of lot 49 is a pretty minor piece. Gravity's rainbow, you know Joyce said of Ulysses he said it was his day book and that Finnegan's wake was the night book. I would say gravity's rainbow…

…on is the archaic period which precedes human history and so cubism and the things that were done for literature by Joyce and pound, and the glorification of barbarism and the recovery of the unconscious, first the sexual nature of the unconscious through…

…is nothing less than all time, all space shrunk down to an atomic dimension and handed back to us. Do you see the way Joyce constructed Ulysses was he had a character who was walking around Dublin in a fog trying to buy some kidneys to fry for…

…was he had a character who was walking around Dublin in a fog trying to buy some kidneys to fry for breakfast and Joyce made of his peregrination from one seedy bar to butcher shop and back bordello he overlaid it over the geography of the Mediterranean…

…cracks the planet like a broken egg in order to bring this off. This is some kind of birthing process. And you know Joyce said man will be dirigible. Well that was because the limit on oblate oval flying machines in 1939 was the dirigible. Really what…

…human species has produced in the last thousand years. How can we be in the presence of such inner riches and be, you know as Joyce says in Finnegan's wake we flop on the seamy side. You know we do flop on the seamy side it's very hard for us to…

…arguably say that this is the quintessential work of art or at least work of literature of the 20th century, and Joyce intended it that way. Joseph Campbell called it a staggering allegory of the fall and redemption of mankind. Equally respected critics…

…than most fictional manuscripts have words period. It has over 5 000 characters in it. Ulysses was designed as a kind of Joyce thought of it as his day book. It follows the peregrinations of an ordinary dubliner this is Ulysses an ordinary dubliner…

…dadaists in Zurich in 1919. Right now it's having a huge resurgence in the form of sampling in pop music and Joyce was the supreme sampler. I mean he draws his material from technical catalogs, menus, legal briefs treaty language, mythologies, dreams,…

…And yet you know what comes out of this once you learn the codes and once you learn to play the game is a Joyce Ian story that all graduates of Ulysses will recognize I mean the main what Joyce was about was an incredible sympathy with common people…

…once you learn to play the game is a Joyce Ian story that all graduates of Ulysses will recognize I mean the main what Joyce was about was an incredible sympathy with common people and an awareness of the dilemma of you know being a jew in Irish…

…mean it's I thought it might be a good test of the star wars system and the guys are having fun with the Joyce things. Well people have suggested that although again, you would think the wheat fields of Western Siberia would be doing it at glastonbury…

…this is somewhat hard to understand but rich enough to pursue. It's this idea, and now I'm going to use James Joyce's Classic example. Joyce wrote a book called Ulysses. Ulysses is a book about a man who rises on a morning, a bright morning day in June…

…he gets his wallet and heads out into Dublin to score some kidneys to bring back and he has all these adventures. But Joyce Understood that this man on this day was also Ulysses with his brave component of man journeying to the end of the Mediterranean,…

…toward the white light, the white this the white that it is not void consciousness, it is more the plurabilities, or as Joyce would say the plurabilities. It is all and everything not merged into a unitary whole but somehow maintaining their unique self…

…interest of thoroughness I read McLuhan's Letters a few years ago and McLuhan had a very interesting intellectual history he was a Joyce Scholar and eventually a convert to catholicism and in one of his letters he talks about the four ages of Christianity…

…in residence, is Finnegan's wake and we've been taking it apart and looking at it and noticing that part of the genius of Joyce in the way the wake is composed, is that all terms are transparent, every word. You can see through it to other words,…

…of modern literature is about, yeah. Well, trapped in artifice, trapped in art I mean in a sense yeah that's why Proust and Joyce who are so different, can be seen to be essentially about the same thing. A true rendering of experience is very hard. I…

…that's the way I've always gone at it. I figure that's the way the really smart money gets at it. The Melville, the Joyce, these voices that you find are somehow channeling closer to that from a position closer to that matrix or whatever and that that's…

…founded the center for media study at the University of Toronto in Canada he really seemed to spawn no highly visible successors. Joyce was a unique umm personality and breakthrough, much in the same way that Joyce was a unique personality and umm and…

…really seemed to spawn no highly visible successors. Joyce was a unique umm personality and breakthrough, much in the same way that Joyce was a unique personality and umm and spawned very few imitators. And the irony of all this is that McLuhan did his…

…did his journeyman work before he burst onto the world stage as this mysterious savant of media. He did his work as a Joyce Scholar. That's what he was a literary critic, Joyce Scholar, medievalist that sort of thing and then in the early 50s or middle…

…the world stage as this mysterious savant of media. He did his work as a Joyce Scholar. That's what he was a literary critic, Joyce Scholar, medievalist that sort of thing and then in the early 50s or middle 50s he wrote a book which I've never read…

…the books I'm reading from and talking about and then I'll actually read you a section of McLuhan because it's a like Joyce, It's a stylistic thing that you can't really encompass without getting your feet wet. Umm this was his best known book probably…

…of the real world on every level ultimately, that were carried out. It's a lot better than stories on a naked planet. You know Joyce when he wrote Finnegan's wake, in some interview he gave at the time he said that his goal was to write a book so…

…off to one side and so my question has to do with: is there some sense of the re emergence or the in the Joyce sense here comes everybody the democratization of that ability in future culture? Yes well I think so. I think that the way these…

…that kind of sensitivity to the depth of language and to the presence of the past in the present in a word is what Joyce is trying to do in Finnegan's wake and that's why, if you read it carefully, you feel many historical layers of meaning in the…

…dimensional space and of what we call reality and this is why I often mention Finnegan's wake in my lectures because Joyce Understood this he understood that every moment is caused by everything that happened in the past and everything that happened in…

…space and of what we call reality and this is why I often mention Finnegan's wake here in my lectures because Joyce Understood this he understood that every moment is caused by everything that happened in the past and everything that happened in…

…a REST and spread the board. You know, with the passing of the patriarchy I recall that wonderful line in Finnegan's wake where Joyce says grand puppus has fallen down but grinnie spreads the board sunny side up with care. If you want to be parked, if…

…on is the archaic period which precedes human history, and so cubism and the things that were done for literature by Joyce and pound and the glorification of barbarism and the recovery of the unconscious, first the sexual nature of the unconscious through…

…is now happening on a mass cultural level. For us, we, to be who we want to be, we have to leave the planet. As Joyce says in Finnegan's wake, up in the nth prospector you sprout all your worth and woof your wings. Then couldn't you say that all of…

…It's who we are. We aspire to be magic and we probably, given our track record will achieve it as I said yesterday. Ms Joyce said man will be dirigible. It's a humorous thing to say but yes, I don't really understand what you mean by that like even…

…in my own point of view the emergence of a transcendental object at the end of time and the end of time is not far off as Joyce says in the wake it may not be as far off as ye wish to be congealed. It is. I think within the lifetimes of all of…

…Berlin which is a big river city in the Amazon. Well I thought, I looked at this and I, as an amateur scholar of Joyce I was aware that the delta symbol for Joyce was always the vagina. There's that whole geometry lesson in Finnegan's wake that has to…

…Well I thought, I looked at this and I, as an amateur scholar of Joyce I was aware that the delta symbol for Joyce was always the vagina. There's that whole geometry lesson in Finnegan's wake that has to do with the inverting of the triangles which…

…you will see that the city of Belém in Brazil, the city of bethlehem, is situated in the delta of the Amazon. Well I'm Joyce Scholar and river freak enough to know that all rivers are female, and if you're too dense to know that certainly the Amazon…

…be parked. It's that simple you see but it takes courage to be parked when the grim reaper draws near. A blessing in disguise Joyce calls it. So to me what psychedelics point out and where I think society will go once they are integrated, to the point…

…art, poetry, myth making these are the things that point the way toward the realm of being of the eschaton. That is what Joyce means when he says man may become dirigible, in other words man may be released into a realm of pure engineering. The…