Ulysses Reading Group 2025 | Session 3 | Episodes 9-13

What is Deconstruction? | An Introduction

Ulysses Reading Group 2025 | Session 2 | Episodes 4-8

"Circe": Chapter 15 from Joyce's Ulysses | An Excerpt

Why We Live in a Post-Truth Era | Pragmatism, Postmodernism, Paradigm Shifts

Finnegans Wake as Fractal Notebook | Notes on the Fragmentary Fall

Ulysses Reading Group 2025 | Session 1 | Episodes 1-3

Shaun: What a picture primitive! | A Finnegans Wake Recitation

Writing Beyond the Voice | Finnegans Wake and Arche-Writing

Texts Cannot Die | Reading Against Tactics of Textual Closure

"Shem the Penman" from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake | A Recitation

Lebniz's Monadology | Reconciling Determinism and Free Will in a Dynamic Universe

William Burroughs "Naked Lunch" | Anarchic Communities and Power Satirized

Learning to Read and Recite Finnegans Wake Without Joyce’s Authority

Finnegans Wake, the Indeterminacy of Syntax, and the Pragmatics of Punctuation

Regimes of Signs | Deleuze-Guattari-Burroughs on the Faciality of the Word Virus

The Ontology of Meaning | Intentionalism vs Externalism

"as a mere matter of ficfect": Finnegans Wake and the Empirical Imagination

Burroughs and the Routinization of America | A Conversation with Matthew Brown

A Critique of Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminism | Who Belongs in the Women's Movement?

Literature as Proxy | The Art of Asking Questions and Vicarious Experimentation

William Buroughs' "Junky" | America's Algebra of Need

The Problem of Waking in Finnegans Wake | A New Interpreative Paradigm

Allen Ginsberg's "Sunflower Sutra" and the Beat Generation Project

How to Self-Study an Academic Discipline Using Handbooks, Readers, and Essay Collections

The Philosophy of Nonsense Poetry in "Jabberwocky" and "I Am the Walrus"

An Interpretive Apotheosis: The Problem of Opposites in Finnegans Wake

Jacques Derrida "Dissemination" | Play, Excess, and the Outside

Disciplinary Apparatuses | Michel Foucault Concept in Focus

Writing the Disaster in "Finnegans Wake": Silence, Struggle, and Subversion via Blanchot

How to Plan, Structure, and Argue an Academic Paper | Behind the Scenes of My Paper Notes

Mamalujo | A Finnegans Wake Recitation | page 398-99

The Prankquean, Feminism, and the Subversion of Sense in "Finnegans Wake"

Finnegans Wake as a Model for Anxiety | Neuroticism, Accretion, and the Anxiety of Words

The Singularity of the Text | A Derridean Text-Centered Pedagogy

Finnegans Wake as Model for AI in Louis Armand's "Mind Factory: From Artifice to Intelligence"

The Problem of Natural Disaster | Why the Christian God is a Terrorist

"Loud, hear us!" | Prayer as Immanent Performance in Finnegans Wake

"Word in Pregross" | Joyce, Regression, and the Artistic Process in Finnegans Wake

Gravity's Rainbow Against Technological Progress | The Economy of Power and War

What is Functionalism? | Heidegger, Deleuze & Guattari, Iser, Fish | Asking "How?" Questions

Stanley Fish "Literature in the Reader: Affective Stylistics" | Theorizing the Reading Experience

Wakean Hermeneutics: Two Extremes | Conservative vs Liberal Criticism

You Can't Be Creative: Joyce on Why All Art is Apocryphal | Finnegans Wake

The Philosophy of Democracy | The Tolerance Paradox, Equity, and Openness

What is Posthumanism? | Radical Critique of the Human Subject

A Deep Dive Into Finnegans Wake Chapter I.1 | Overview of an Overture with Notes and Glosses

Plato's Problematic Politics in "The Republic" | The Ordered Body and the City

Postmodernity, Madness, and Marginality | How Language Polices Madness, and How to Transgress It

Blanchot on "Mallarmé's Experience" | Poetic Autonomy, Self-Referentiality, and Symbolism

Finnegans Wake as Logorrheic Text | Discursive Spillage as an Ethics of the Repressed

The Finnegans Wake Iceberg

How to Read BETTER | 9 Tips from a Philosophy and Literature Student

Theorizing Wakese as Multilingual Materiality | Sound, Performance, and the Reader

Father of my Father: Artistry, Creation, and Fatherhood in Ulysses ep. 9, "Scylla and Charybdis"

Thinking About Finnegans Wake Philosophically with Deleuze | "Two Regimes of Madness"

Stop Policing Literary Taste! | Towards a Democracy of Literary Spaces

My MASSIVE Junior Year Personal Reading List | Joyce Studies, Poststructuralism, and Literary Theory

Kinky Joyce: Friend or Foe in Finnegans Wake? | Desire and the Reader-Writer Relationship

Werner Hamacher "95 Theses on Philology" | Deconstruction and Radical Philology