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   [1] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk> (71)
         Subject: re-release of Armand, Techne: James Joyce, Hypertext &
                 Technology

   [2] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk> (38)
         Subject: Knowledge and Information Systems 13.2

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         Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:34:14 +0000
         From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
         Subject: re-release of Armand, Techne:
James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology

Subject: recently re-released
From: Hypermedia Joyce Studies <hypermedia_joyce_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 18:41:31 +0000 (GMT)

recently re-released ....

TECHNE: James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology
by Louis Armand

2nd corrected edition, with index
ISBN 978-80-246-1382-6 (paperback). 234pp.
October 2007
Publisher: Karolinum/Charles University Press

http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/techne.html

Price: euros 12.00 (not including postage)

While this study is concerned with the question
of technology in its relation to the work of
James Joyce and theories of hypertext, it is
also, and more specifically, addressed to a
concept of technology arising from the language
of Finnegans Wake. Drawing upon developments in
communication theory and information technology,
this study attempts to map a parallel development
in Joyce's uses of language in the Wake, arguing
that Joyce's writing provides a model for
re-thinking the relationship between technology
and "all forms of cultural production." The
purpose of this is not, however, to suggest that
Joyce was necessarily in some way cognisant of a
future possibility of hypertext, nor is it simply
concerned with a retrospective glance at Joyce
from the position of current computing
technologies. Rather, it is to examine how
Joyce's work is aware of its own position against
and within contemporary developments in the
sciences and electronic media, and that Joyce
incorporated material from these developments into his texts.

"Techne is an elaborate and passionate mapping of
the ways in which hypertext is, in fact, like
Joyce. In this respect it will be an essential
benchmark in Joyce scholarship, as seminal as the
work of Hugh Kenner in the 1950s and 1960s, which
also set the style and tone for a generation of Joyce criticism."
--Darren Tofts, author of Memory Trades

"The main purposes of Armand's important study
are primarily to 'trace the historical
development of communications technologies in the
context of Joyce's writing,' while secondarily
examining their effects on Joyce scholarship ...
throughout the book he presents an important new
understanding of the relationship of Joyce's work
to the evolution of hypertext from mechanization
and the new electric media ... I strongly
recommend this book for its rigorous and
illuminationg understanding of the importance of
technology to Joyce and for the understanding of
Joyce's affinities with major movements of the
first half of the twentieth century."
--Donald Theall, James Joyce Quarterly

Louis Armand is director of the InterCultural
Studies programme in the Philosophy Faculty of
Charles University, Prague. His books include
Solicitations: Essays on Criticism & Culture;
Techne: James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology; and
Incendiary Devices: Discourses of the Other.
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HYPERMEDIA JOYCE STUDIES
http://hjs.ff.cuni.cz
Programme in InterCultural Studies
Philosophy Faculty, Charles University, Prague

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         Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:34:22 +0000
         From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
         Subject: Knowledge and Information Systems 13.2

Volume 13 Number 2 of Knowledge and Information
Systems is now available on the SpringerLink web
site at http://springerlink.com

Editorial
Visualisation and interaction for scientific
exploration and knowledge discovery
Elena Zudilova-Seinstra, Tony Adriaansen
pp. 115 - 117

Visual transformation for interactive spatiotemporal data mining
Yang Cai, Richard Stumpf, Timothy Wynne, Michelle
Tomlinson, Daniel Sai Ho Chung, Xavier
Boutonnier, Matthias Ihmig, Rafael Franco, Nathaniel Bauernfeind
pp. 119 - 142

Toward understanding the importance of gesture in
distributed scientific collaboration
Brian Corrie, Margaret-Anne Storey
pp. 143 - 171

A typology of course of motion in simulated
environments based on Bézier curve analysis
Corina Sas, Nikita Schmidt
pp. 173 - 196

A multimodal virtual reality interface for 3D interaction with VTK
Arjan J. F. Kok, Robert Liere
pp. 197 - 219

Exploration of directional-predictive sounds for
nonvisual interaction with graphs
Tatiana G. Evreinova, Leena K. Vesterinen, Grigori Evreinov, Roope Raisamo
pp. 221 - 241

On the role of individual human abilities in the
design of adaptive user interfaces for scientific problem solving environments
Elena Zudilova-Seinstra
pp. 243 - 270
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