James Joyce's Techno-Poetics

Bert Almon is a professor of English at the University of Alberta. He is
the author of Calling Texas, Earth Prime, and Mind the Gap.

In 1950, Donald Theall was introduced to Finnegan’s Wake in a reading
group. One of

its members was Marshall McLuhan, whose interest lay in Joyce’s
relevance to a global community in which technology had become an
extension of human consciousness. Theall, a worthy successor to McLuhan
as an interpreter of Joyce, sees the writer as “a key figure in the
history of cyberculture.” This thoroughly read-able study examines the
relevance of Joyce’s work to fields such as communications media,
quantum physics, and, above all, cybernetics.