'Count Me Out': Ulysses and/as the Great Refusal.

This article attempts to read James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) in the context of contemporary anti-work struggles against neoliberal capitalism. Specifically, my analysis puts Joyce in dialogue with the Marxist concept of the 'Great Refusal', the process by which we separate ourselves entirely from capitalism's exploitative processes in a radical and uncompromising way. I examine Joyce's own composition of the novel and the spaces he occupied while writing it, as well as the novel's characters' complicated relationships with creative and commercial labour. By situating Joyce's epic novel in light of the all-consuming pressures of labour under capitalism, I hope to update the modernist text's statements on work in order to understand how Joyce can provide us with tactics to resist contemporary ideologies that normalise neoliberalism's austerity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]