Abstract
Abstract: Joyce famously composed the tenth episode of Ulysses , “Wandering Rocks,” with painstaking reference to a map of Dublin, becoming, in his words, “a scissors and paste man.” This essay asks—what might it mean to become scissors and paste readers? Radicalizing the form of repetition and interpolation in “Wandering Rocks,” this study conducts an experimental reading of the episode to show how “Wandering Rocks” might intervene on contemporary debates about the structure and representability of the social. Reading “Wandering Rocks” against recent scholarship on the representability of social space, especially that of Bruno Latour and Fredric Jameson, this essay suggests that “Wandering Rocks” provides a thesis regarding the interplay of signs, traces, and complex governing structures that lends nuance to studies of the social, especially regarding the notion of social totality.
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