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forget itself in order to re-invent itself, to reinvent itself in order
to regain interest in itself, in short to effect a mocking
simulacrum of continued creation, thanks to which it believes it
will escape the authentication of its nothingness, and out of its
nothingness refashion a reality.” (106)
Yet homogeneous repetition à la Gutenberg still leaves
something to be desired in the way of a self. How is one to
reason with the person who feeds himself into a buzz-saw
because the teeth are invisible? Such was the fate of the
unified “self” in the age of print segmentation. But it is hard to
believe in the reality of anybody who in any age could take
seriously the Gutenberg assumptions when applied to the
ordering of life.
James Joyce certainly thought he had found in Vico a