Left: Passion fruit flower. Photo via Wikimedia / Right: Papaya fruit flower. Photo via Wikimedia.

Joyce’s aim in both Ulysses and Finnegans Wake is to produce closed totalities which in the complex interdependence of their elements organically integrate reality into one enormously elaborate system ...

‘The society of the spectacle’ is a phrase that has passed, in France, and I suppose elsewhere, into common parlance. The recent death of Guy Debord has had a share in giving to his work of 1967, and ...