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| | Techne: James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology |
 | | The question here centres on the notion of solicitation-the extent to which Joyce's text can be said to both call for and motivate a hypertextuality irreducible to a stable field, or placement, whereby a text could be defined in relation to a structural episteme. |
 | | This question involves further issues of identity, myth and the technological-mechanical basis of signification, in terms of what we might also call "genetic strands." This "genetics," however, may be seen to disappoint a general hermeneutics, investing the logic of the "genetic master key" with a type of viral flaw. |
 | | For this reason it is a question of situating the hypertextual condition of Joyce's writing as something belonging to, and solicited by, a Joycean poetics, and not as a set of normative procedures imposed from outside. |
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