The Finnegans Wake Reading Group as a Model for "Stealth Activities" between Art and the University

James Joyce's late work, Finnegans Wake (1939), necessitates shared reading like few others: its phonetic focus requires it to be read aloud, and the multiplicity of languages fields knowledge used makes presence others indispensable. Since canonization, groups his works have often been led by English Literature scholars, but they do not usually take place in university departments, rather cafes, book shops art spaces. What does this mean for kinds referenced conjured? In 2013, Dora García filmed The Joycean Society. curator Maria Lind has called both Society Zurich group that documents "stealth activities". Her essay is entitled "The Triumph Nerds". modes (and, therefore, which politics) communal practice then entail?