..., whether in criticism, journalism, or private reading. “Photographic memory” linked both Joyce and Pugh, and the extent to which Joyce’s fiction translates the “paralysis” of the still image into a more dynamic moving image, may account for the manner in which the modernity of Dublin in Ulysses...

...Dublin in James Joyce's spectral imagination is akin to a phantom limb. His literary modernism turns on what is absent or off the page, an apophatic style in which text is intimately bound up with context, and language re-enacts the material texture of the city. In keeping with Wittgenstein's...

...During the second half of the eighteenth century, Dublin prided itself on being the second city of the British Empire. With regard to publishing, there is considerable merit in this claim. Dublin and Edinburgh had about 2,800 and 2,100 imprints, respectively. If their combined total...

... Extension Institute). The second variation follows Louis Dublin and Alfred J. Lotka as they construct a means for valuing lives in dollars and debate the possibility of using those values to justify public health interventions. Eventually as their values became popular, the two men backed away from using...

...This chapter looks at how the modern infrastructure of Dublin, in terms of transport, energy, and media technologies, set the stage for the Easter Rising of 1916, in keeping with the material setting of many of the stylistic innovations in Ulysses. In this light, the Easter Rising itself is better...

...This chapter begins with Frederick Hoffman’s traditional, predictive risk making. It then considers how the disruption of the Armstrong investigations created an opportunity for reformers like Irving Fisher, Lee Frankel, and Louis Dublin to demonstrate how risk-making tools could be reappropriated...

...This chapter explains the biopolitics of life insurer data in the twentieth century. Looking into Louis Dublin’s use of life-span data to fight against immigration restriction and the racialization of eugenics, the chapter explains the “white data politics” of life insurance corporations that had...

.... The chapter then turns to the role of civil society and the German volunteers who helped new arrivals register and find shelter and, later, navigate German bureaucracy and culture. The chapter ends with a summary of German residence and asylum law, including the Dublin III Regulation and the infamous Duldung...

...This chapter examines the challenging liminal lives of young migrants classified as adults. It presents four particularly striking examples of liminality, or inbetweenness, in their lives: First, many young adults fall under the Dublin III Regulation and thus receive serial temporary documentation...