Lucia Joyce Papers
The written materials of and relating to Lucia Joyce have since the day of James Joyce’s death been a serious concern to the Joyce Estate. Private correspondence, medical records and writings ; suppression and destruction has been the estates modus operandi towards these materials. In the immediate period after James Joyce’s death in 1941, friends from his literary circle began to destroy Lucia’s letters. [8] During Stephen Joyce’s tenure as principal executor, he had been tenacious in the suppression of materials related to Lucia Joyce.
Response to Jerome McGann’s Marking Texts of Many Dimensions
This text was incredibly dense – encompassing physics, mathematics, linguistics, philosophy ( rather , philology ), biology ( conceptual biology?), computer science and what I would describe as ‘phenomonology of reader’. McGann moves through persons, sciences, theories, languages and disciplines like a current of water against a jetty : with full force and without a […]
Red Pill Trippin’ : QAnon , Meme Magic and Nihilistic Irony
The first QAnon ‘update’ happened in October 2017. The figures I saw dealing in untruths and Fascist propaganda were actual people with an identifiable agenda. They distorted the world, but still referred to reality, even if only vaguely. When I thought of disinformation war, I thought of Russian ‘Bot farms and Cambridge Analytica. Their methodologies and practices are deranged and terrifying, though I can comprehend the logic of their purpose. QAon is totally decentralised, irrational, discursive and rabid.