Joyce organized Ulysses by assigning the various city forms of walls, streets, civic building and media to the various bodily organs… Baudelaire originally intended to call his Fleurs du Mal, Les Limbes, having in mind the city as corporate extensions of our physical organs. Our letting-go of ourselves, self-alienations, as it were, in order to amplify or increase the power of various functions, Baudelaire considered to be flowers of growths of evil.
Understanding Media (1964), MIT/Routledge edition, pp 123-124
Year: 1964
Chapter:
Joyce, James
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan