“The medium is the message”

  • Art forms are not only messengers, but they are ways of perceiving, knowing the world.
  • The message of is the media - the method of the media.
  • It is the medium that is the art

Within Ulysses, we see many new forms of media and technology emerge:

  • The typewriter which Deasy uses in 2 Nestor
  • The “press” to which Stephen must deliver Deasy’s letter in 2 Nestor
  • The Photogirl at beach towards the end of 1 Telemachus
  • The “telephone cable” that Stephen compares to an umbilical cord, during his musings in 3 Proteus

1 Telemachus

3 Proteus