James Green
@jamesrbgreen.bsky.social
Teaching & research into joyce & medievalism, based in cardiff for the moment, hello - jamesrbgreen.co.uk
Forced my students to admire this sentence in Araby: 'Through one of the broken panes I heard the rain impinge upon the earth, the fine incessant needles of water playing in the sodden beds.'
November 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Forced my students to admire this sentence in Araby: 'Through one of the broken panes I heard the rain impinge upon the earth, the fine incessant needles of water playing in the sodden beds.'
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This is what they took from you
November 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This is what they took from you
Lot of creative deaths in the tales of the elders of ireland, but the one I enjoy at this point in time is 'He put his face to the earth and did not raise it again, and thus died from shame'
November 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Lot of creative deaths in the tales of the elders of ireland, but the one I enjoy at this point in time is 'He put his face to the earth and did not raise it again, and thus died from shame'
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Whoever wrote in the blurb for this edition of Edward Said’s Out of Place that the book reveals “an unimaginably rich world of colorful characters and exotic eastern landscapes” desperately needs to read some Edward Said
November 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Whoever wrote in the blurb for this edition of Edward Said’s Out of Place that the book reveals “an unimaginably rich world of colorful characters and exotic eastern landscapes” desperately needs to read some Edward Said
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I collect inspirational footnotes and share them from time to time:
October 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I collect inspirational footnotes and share them from time to time:
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My internet's been down since Friday, but in the meantime apparently I've had a paper published! Check out “The Letter of the Law: Joyce, Martyrdom, and Wildean Litigation”, Open Library of Humanities, vol. 11, no. 2, 2025. olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
The Letter of the Law: Joyce, Martyrdom, and Wildean Litigation
In James Joyce's Ulysses, both the ‘Cyclops’ episode and the parodic legal proceedings of ‘Circe’ treat sexual deviance as anti-Irish—a feminised foreign invader threatening the heterosexist, hypermas...
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October 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
My internet's been down since Friday, but in the meantime apparently I've had a paper published! Check out “The Letter of the Law: Joyce, Martyrdom, and Wildean Litigation”, Open Library of Humanities, vol. 11, no. 2, 2025. olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
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“If human beings would learn to stop insisting on their distinction from animals, perhaps they would no longer need to humble themselves so before the angels.” —Adorno (1944)
October 26, 2025 at 3:46 AM
“If human beings would learn to stop insisting on their distinction from animals, perhaps they would no longer need to humble themselves so before the angels.” —Adorno (1944)
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Nietzsche on realism
October 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Nietzsche on realism
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Didn’t realize this about Rhodes & CS Parnell. Bew refers to the £10,000 as a donation, but the emphasis on payment for payment of services rendered seems the point!
October 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Didn’t realize this about Rhodes & CS Parnell. Bew refers to the £10,000 as a donation, but the emphasis on payment for payment of services rendered seems the point!
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london review of books' classifieds section remains undefeated (there's also someone looking to buy a london flat upfront, budget £600,000)
October 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
london review of books' classifieds section remains undefeated (there's also someone looking to buy a london flat upfront, budget £600,000)
Origami crane incense holder and incense i got for my birthday (this is a brag). Looks like a liver bird in that colour
October 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Origami crane incense holder and incense i got for my birthday (this is a brag). Looks like a liver bird in that colour
I do wonder how much the outlook of our prominent journalists comes from 1. Being in a profession with a v high barrier to entry, 2. Therefore selecting for those w private school upbringing, 3. Not being paid well (so downwardly mobile), 4. Pressure to build personal brand on hostile social media
October 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I do wonder how much the outlook of our prominent journalists comes from 1. Being in a profession with a v high barrier to entry, 2. Therefore selecting for those w private school upbringing, 3. Not being paid well (so downwardly mobile), 4. Pressure to build personal brand on hostile social media
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‘Whether they're most concerned about restoring inequality of men over women, of global cultures, of races or religions, or of economic orders and hierarchies, there's a push back against that principle of equality.’
Alan Finlayson on the online right, on the pod: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Alan Finlayson on the online right, on the pod: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
On Politics: The Online Right (and Left)
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 15/10/2025 · 1h 15m
podcasts.apple.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
‘Whether they're most concerned about restoring inequality of men over women, of global cultures, of races or religions, or of economic orders and hierarchies, there's a push back against that principle of equality.’
Alan Finlayson on the online right, on the pod: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Alan Finlayson on the online right, on the pod: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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'The British Library...has taken years to recover from a major cyberattack that disrupted its services and restricted access to its collections. The walkout is set to take from 27 October to 9 November, coinciding with the two-year anniversary of the cyberattack.'
October 15, 2025 at 6:43 AM
'The British Library...has taken years to recover from a major cyberattack that disrupted its services and restricted access to its collections. The walkout is set to take from 27 October to 9 November, coinciding with the two-year anniversary of the cyberattack.'
I really hope the D'Angelo news isn't true. 51 is far too early. I remember the excitement seeing Black Messiah drop early in 2014, because of protests around Michael Brown's killing. It felt prophetic. He was excellent, people recognised it to an extent, but maybe he was even huger
October 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I really hope the D'Angelo news isn't true. 51 is far too early. I remember the excitement seeing Black Messiah drop early in 2014, because of protests around Michael Brown's killing. It felt prophetic. He was excellent, people recognised it to an extent, but maybe he was even huger
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László the legend, ledge for short, that's what he's known as here in cardiff... all the local children ask him to do impressions of Irimias from Satantango, and he obliges...
October 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
László the legend, ledge for short, that's what he's known as here in cardiff... all the local children ask him to do impressions of Irimias from Satantango, and he obliges...
Three rules for the arctic by william t. vollmann
October 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Three rules for the arctic by william t. vollmann
I appreciate that under clickhole posts on Facebook, you get an intervening voice from 'oaf's corner'
October 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I appreciate that under clickhole posts on Facebook, you get an intervening voice from 'oaf's corner'
Re last repost: that opening of Howards End is so good isn't it
September 30, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Re last repost: that opening of Howards End is so good isn't it
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Is there anything more tantalising than the promise of an early 19th-century letter with the postscript "Burn this immediately"?
September 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Is there anything more tantalising than the promise of an early 19th-century letter with the postscript "Burn this immediately"?
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Blair's post-genocide plans for a new Mandatory Palestine should be a delegitimising project for an entire faction of Labour. In terms of scandal by association this is far worse than anything Mandleson has done. A generation of British politicians should be haunted by the words "Gaza Trump Riviera"
September 30, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Blair's post-genocide plans for a new Mandatory Palestine should be a delegitimising project for an entire faction of Labour. In terms of scandal by association this is far worse than anything Mandleson has done. A generation of British politicians should be haunted by the words "Gaza Trump Riviera"