{"546061":{"#nid":"546061","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"\u2018Ulysses\u2019 and the Lie of Technological Progress","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication professor Ian Bogost, Ph.D. wrote \u201cUlysses and the Lie of Technological Progress\u201d for \u003Cem\u003EThe Atlantic\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoyce\u2019s formal innovations exerted pressure on language rather than on medium. Words work more or less the same as they did in 1904 or 1922 or 1942. Books work identically. Today, by contrast, formal media innovation rules the day. New devices and infrastructures push out old ones, and they do so at an ever more rapid pace. And yet, Ulysses too was a media product of its time, one largely unreadable absent its historical context. The bric-a-brac of Dublin shop windows; the guffaws of then-current headlines; the references to long-outmoded Celtic twilight; the intrinsic linguistic conflict of the English language in Ireland; then-new technologies now long gone.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf Bloomsday must be celebrated, it is high time that the holiday fully devour Joyce\u2019s novel in order to expel and move beyond it. The ultimate lesson of Ulysses is that everything that seems permanent decays and returns to earth. But in so doing, it doesn\u2019t vanish. It facilitates new growth, both native and invasive. The old bonds with the new, and in so doing it both ruins and extols it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022Joyce\u2019s%20formal%20innovations%20exerted%20pressure%20on%20language%20rather%20than%20on%20medium.%20Words%20work%20more%20or%20less%20the%20same%20as%20they%20did%20in%201904%20or%201922%20or%201942.%20Books%20work%20identically.%20Today,%20by%20contrast,%20formal%20media%20innovation%20rules%20the%20day.%20New%20devices%20and%20infrastructures%20push%20out%20old%20ones,%20and%20they%20do%20so%20at%20an%20ever%20more%20rapid%20pace.%20And%20yet,%20Ulysses%20too%20was%20a%20media%20product%20of%20its%20time,%20one%20largely%20unreadable%20absent%20its%20historical%20context.%20The%20bric-a-brac%20of%20Dublin%20shop%20windows;%20the%20guffaws%20of%20then-current%20headlines;%20the%20references%20to%20long-outmoded%20Celtic%20twilight;%20the%20intrinsic%20linguistic%20conflict%20of%20the%20English%20language%20in%20Ireland;%20then-new%20technologies%20now%20long%20gone.%20%20If%20Bloomsday%20must%20be%20celebrated,%20it%20is%20high%20time%20that%20the%20holiday%20fully%20devour%20Joyce\u2019s%20novel%20in%20order%20to%20expel%20and%20move%20beyond%20it.%20The%20ultimate%20lesson%20of%20Ulysses%20is%20that%20everything%20that%20seems%20permanent%20decays%20and%20returns%20to%20earth.%20But%20in%20so%20doing,%20it%20doesn\u2019t%20vanish.%20It%20facilitates%20new%20growth,%20both%20native%20and%20invasive.%20The%20old%20bonds%20with%20the%20new,%20and%20in%20so%20doing%20it%20both%20ruins%20and%20extols%20it.\u0022\u003EClick here for the full article from \u003Cem\u003EThe\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EAtlantic\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"32716","created_gmt":"2016-06-20 11:33:48","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:28:14","author":"Hayden Russell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"JS Coon Building","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2016\/06\/everyday-is-bloomsday\/487313\/","dateline":{"date":"2016-06-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-06-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"546071":{"id":"546071","type":"image","title":"James Joyce","body":null,"created":"1466438400","gmt_created":"2016-06-20 16:00:00","changed":"1475895338","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:38","alt":"James Joyce","file":{"fid":"91688","name":"mte1oda0otcxnjgwmtcxntmz.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mte1oda0otcxnjgwmtcxntmz.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mte1oda0otcxnjgwmtcxntmz.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":14422,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/mte1oda0otcxnjgwmtcxntmz.jpg?itok=kvi5facq"}}},"media_ids":["546071"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3663","name":"Ian Bogost"},{"id":"60401","name":"James Joyce"},{"id":"167943","name":"School of Literature Media and Communication"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}