Bloomcast | Episode 8 | Eumaeus & Ithaca

Welcome to Bloomcast, a ten-part plunge into James Joyce's Ulysses presented by Adam Biles, Alice McCrum, and Lex Paulson, live from Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris. Join them as they muddle through this radical, sublime, and often misunderstood novel first published one hundred years ago, in 1922. 

In episode eight, Adam helps us understand the strained, clumsy style of Eumaeus and investigates Bloom’s double-entry accounting; Alice alerts us to the one-eyedness of narrative and makes the case for the democratisation of art; while Lex praises the mood of Eumeaus and the innovation of universal basic income. In this episode, the fearless trio follow money, water and manufactured meat tins, as well as Stephen and Bloom, who finally spend a little time together.        

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A student of environmental policy at Sciences Po-Paris, Alice McCrum runs programming at the American Library in Paris. 

In between fits of Joycean nerdery, Dr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the School of Collective Intelligence at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco. An adopted Parisian, he teaches at Sciences Po-Paris and writes on the past and future of democracy.

Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company, Paris. He is the author of the novel Feeding Time, available in French as Défense de nourrir les vieux.

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