From 1904 Dublin to the Megacity: Public Access in Ulysses and Katarina Schröter’s The Visitor | Reading Cities, Sensing Cities Colloquium | Catherine Flynn (Lecture, 55 minutes)
Abstract
On November 13, 2014, Catherine Flynn (English) raised the question of urban knowing, of processes of knowledge that take place outside of familial, social and professional contexts and that depend upon the urban fabric. It looks at the means used to construct and represent such processes in literary and filmic engagements with the city and the megacity. It compares the technical means availed of by Joyce and Schröter: urban (infrastructure, systems of circulation), artistic (stream of consciousness, static camera, montage) and personal (both Joyce and Schröter’s personae engage in silent looking, empathy and mimicry) and considers the pressures put upon these means by the megacity.
This talk was part of the Reading Cities, Sensing Cities colloquium presented by the Global Urban Humanities Initiative at UC Berkeley.