There have been increasing interests in techno-poetics and posthuman aesthetics in recent literary studies. This work harnesses this critical energy and re-reads Ulysses as a work that embodies this posthuman ethos and explores its affiliation with technology and mechanical movements of language. This essay attempts to articulate Ulysses¡¯s machine-like qualities using Deleuze and Guattari¡¯s Anti-Oedipus as a theoretical framework. Just like Deleuze and Guattari¡¯s desiring-machine, Ulysses is a mechanical body with a peculiar awareness of the possibilities of language in duplicating, reproducing, and even transforming and redistributing the real. Ulysses-machine keeps deferring the moment when one voice, one language, or one perspective becomes a dominant agency. Ulysses-machine also enables new connections between bodies (biological, mechanical, and textual) through its mechanical production and indifferent productions and juxtapositions of multiple perspectives. In so doing, Joyce¡¯s language and characters embody the posthuman ethics of becoming machine-like.
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