Charlie Clements
@somuchrain.bsky.social
Tufts PhD. candidate working on metaphysics in the Irish and British novel. Thinking about Ireland and Japan’s encounters with modernity. Occasional writer of awkward, rude fiction.
I don’t wanna be snarky, but who the fuck STILL had a NYT subscription?
November 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I don’t wanna be snarky, but who the fuck STILL had a NYT subscription?
Also, I had no idea that Rik Mayall played Toad in "The Willows in Winter" and as of tonight I feel like he'd basically been guiding me my whole life.
September 28, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Also, I had no idea that Rik Mayall played Toad in "The Willows in Winter" and as of tonight I feel like he'd basically been guiding me my whole life.
I just tried to use Siri to find a quote from "Sometimes I Think about Dying" and it started to call "Emergency Services" ... I'm fairly certain—given the focus of most of the shit I write on—I'm gonna be on a list pretty soon.
September 28, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I just tried to use Siri to find a quote from "Sometimes I Think about Dying" and it started to call "Emergency Services" ... I'm fairly certain—given the focus of most of the shit I write on—I'm gonna be on a list pretty soon.
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Here. This managed to ignite my utter loathing of tech bros enough for me to write this.
othermeans.io/p/get-your-f...
othermeans.io/p/get-your-f...
July 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Here. This managed to ignite my utter loathing of tech bros enough for me to write this.
othermeans.io/p/get-your-f...
othermeans.io/p/get-your-f...
You know… all of this hubbub about LibGen … it just seems so out of touch to me. I’m not defending Meta training AI on copy written material, but I wouldn’t have a single degree if I hadn’t pirated books. Not all libraries will buy books for students and academic texts are ludicrously expensive.
March 23, 2025 at 6:55 AM
You know… all of this hubbub about LibGen … it just seems so out of touch to me. I’m not defending Meta training AI on copy written material, but I wouldn’t have a single degree if I hadn’t pirated books. Not all libraries will buy books for students and academic texts are ludicrously expensive.
Am I having a seizure?
March 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Am I having a seizure?
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UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR
March 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR
“It is the positive practice of freedom, not the negative struggle against particular oppression, that has lifted me above a mutilated existence.” Bataille
March 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
“It is the positive practice of freedom, not the negative struggle against particular oppression, that has lifted me above a mutilated existence.” Bataille
I was just thinking to myself about why I’m spending so much time on my intro and conclusion rather than finishing the last chapter of my dissertation and said—out loud—“well you butter the bread before making a sandwich!” I need to get out more.
February 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I was just thinking to myself about why I’m spending so much time on my intro and conclusion rather than finishing the last chapter of my dissertation and said—out loud—“well you butter the bread before making a sandwich!” I need to get out more.
God I hope this misuse of “foundational” doesn’t become the new “existential.” Well meaning liberals have a weird ability to create buzzwords. Damnit neither the Confederacy nor the Nazi party existed when America was founded!
AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.
January 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
God I hope this misuse of “foundational” doesn’t become the new “existential.” Well meaning liberals have a weird ability to create buzzwords. Damnit neither the Confederacy nor the Nazi party existed when America was founded!
It just occurred to me that through a combination of illness, busyness, and general isolation via misanthropy, I’ve made it this far without hearing that accursed Mariah song once this year…
December 24, 2024 at 12:51 PM
It just occurred to me that through a combination of illness, busyness, and general isolation via misanthropy, I’ve made it this far without hearing that accursed Mariah song once this year…
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Maurizio Lazzarato argues that critical theorists have downplayed the role of civil war and class struggle in social life, resulting in a confused and pacified idea of politics. Only by restoring their centrality can we clarify our present situation.
illwill.com/new-world-or...
illwill.com/new-world-or...
December 11, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Maurizio Lazzarato argues that critical theorists have downplayed the role of civil war and class struggle in social life, resulting in a confused and pacified idea of politics. Only by restoring their centrality can we clarify our present situation.
illwill.com/new-world-or...
illwill.com/new-world-or...
I might be the only person I know who is dreading the end of term... I didn't teach this term (i.e.: was unemployed) and am teaching again next term with a schedule that is destined to ruin me as a human who can make words make sense.
December 11, 2024 at 11:34 AM
I might be the only person I know who is dreading the end of term... I didn't teach this term (i.e.: was unemployed) and am teaching again next term with a schedule that is destined to ruin me as a human who can make words make sense.
Despite the fact that I generally really like Malabou, I have the feeling this book is going to irritate the unholy shit out of me.
November 24, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Despite the fact that I generally really like Malabou, I have the feeling this book is going to irritate the unholy shit out of me.
Oh thank God. It’s raining for the first time in three months. May it never stop!
November 21, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Oh thank God. It’s raining for the first time in three months. May it never stop!
#AcademicSky, let's get to know each other! Quote this with: 1) a project you're working on & 2) an idea you aren't working on but keep thinking about
1) PhD on immanence in post-war Irish and British literature.
2) similarities between Ireland and Japan’s transition to modernity wrt colonialism
1) PhD on immanence in post-war Irish and British literature.
2) similarities between Ireland and Japan’s transition to modernity wrt colonialism
#AcademicSky, let's get to know each other! Quote this with: 1) a project you're working on & 2) an idea you aren't working on but keep thinking about
1) PhD on religious/secular/esoteric concepts of the 'unsayable' and 'unknowable' in modernist literature
2) industrial music as late modernism (?)
1) PhD on religious/secular/esoteric concepts of the 'unsayable' and 'unknowable' in modernist literature
2) industrial music as late modernism (?)
November 19, 2024 at 5:10 PM
#AcademicSky, let's get to know each other! Quote this with: 1) a project you're working on & 2) an idea you aren't working on but keep thinking about
1) PhD on immanence in post-war Irish and British literature.
2) similarities between Ireland and Japan’s transition to modernity wrt colonialism
1) PhD on immanence in post-war Irish and British literature.
2) similarities between Ireland and Japan’s transition to modernity wrt colonialism
You know, at least the “there are only two genders” idiots distinguish between sex and gender. Granted they probably aren’t aware of it…
November 19, 2024 at 2:25 AM
You know, at least the “there are only two genders” idiots distinguish between sex and gender. Granted they probably aren’t aware of it…
“I will have no hesitation to lose myself
to dissolve into dirt, to disappear into the sky
to become part of those with no words”
from “Goodbye”
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
Renowned poet Tanikawa Shuntaro dies at 92 | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
Tanikawa Shuntaro -- a renowned Japanese poet who used his keen sense of observation in creating a vast body of work -- has died of old age. He was 92.
www3.nhk.or.jp
November 19, 2024 at 1:33 AM
“I will have no hesitation to lose myself
to dissolve into dirt, to disappear into the sky
to become part of those with no words”
from “Goodbye”
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
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coming soon @somuchrain.bsky.social
November 17, 2024 at 5:40 PM
coming soon @somuchrain.bsky.social
Love that Shetland characterizes Finnegans Wake as the type of book only prisoners with life sentences would read.
November 17, 2024 at 4:28 AM
Love that Shetland characterizes Finnegans Wake as the type of book only prisoners with life sentences would read.
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Blocking Nazis, trolls, and fascists doesn’t make it an “echo chamber.” People need to stop gaslighting us into thinking we have to listen to Nazis and debate trolls in order to be informed.
November 17, 2024 at 12:52 AM
Blocking Nazis, trolls, and fascists doesn’t make it an “echo chamber.” People need to stop gaslighting us into thinking we have to listen to Nazis and debate trolls in order to be informed.
Well there go the two tweets I ever made…
November 14, 2024 at 3:25 AM
Well there go the two tweets I ever made…