technology. As his title indicates, he saw that the wake of 
human progress can disappear again into the night of sacral or 
auditory man. The Finn cycle of tribal institutions can return in 
the electric age, but if again, then let’s make it a wake or 
awake or both. Joyce could see no advantage in our remaining 
locked up in each cultural cycle as in a trance or dream. He 
discovered the means of living simultaneously in all cultural 
modes while quite conscious. The means he cites for such self-
awareness and correction of cultural bias is his 
“collideorscope.” This term indicates the interplay in colloidal 
mixture of all components of human technology as they extend 
our senses and shift their ratios in the social kaleidoscope of 
cultural clash: “deor,” savage, the oral or sacral; “scope” the 
visual or profane and civilized.