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James Green

@jamesrbgreen

Teaching & research into joyce & medievalism, based in cardiff, hello - jamesrbgreen.co.uk

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James Green@jamesrbgreen· 9d

Richard Kirkland - Irish London: A Cultural History 1850-1916

Sans serif text tastefully over Walter sickert's excellent painting 'the old bedford' (1895), of people leaning over a balcony watching music hall theatre

James Green@jamesrbgreen· 10d

Coming across this quote in 2019 has basically shaped ever since how I feel about AI, advertising, social media, and so on:

Quote from Hegel's Logic from das kapital's footnotes: 'In a time so rich in reflection and so devoted to raisonnement as our own, he must be a poor creature who cannot advance a good ground for everything, even for what is worst and most depraved. Everything in the world that has become corrupt, has had good ground for its corruption'

James Green@jamesrbgreen· 16d

Gillian Rose - The Broken Middle

One of the best covers - the grooves of two lp-like discs overlap in the middle creating a more effect in the intersection. This is v thematic

James Green@jamesrbgreen· 19d

Music this week

Martin carthy- second album
Dj sprinkles- midtown 120 blues
Ancient infinity orchestra- it's always about liberation
Mark mcguire- guitar meditations
Circle- Miljard
Jake acosta- rehearsal park
Patto- s/t
Blue gene tyranny- out of the blue
Akira inoue- splash

James Green@jamesrbgreen· 25d

Ian Watt - The Rise of the Novel

Old peregrine cover: dark background, vivid signatures over it of defoe richardson and fielding

James Green@jamesrbgreen· Jul 10

Euripides tr. Philip Vellacott - Medea and other plays

Penguin classics edition w 5th century bce depiction of bacchante

James Green@jamesrbgreen· Jul 6

Last 7 days of music

Cameroon garage funk compilation
Jubal- Raíces
Schlammpeitziger- Augenwischwaldmoppgeflöte
Square pusher- Kammerkonzert
Jonny nash- at the emerald pool
Wendy eisenberg - s/t
Kíla & oki
Sam gender and sam wilkes- unrelated
Olski - big ting ep

James Green@jamesrbgreen· Jul 4

Circles and Squares: The Lives and Art of the Hampstead Modernists - Caroline Maclean

Ben Nicholson and Barbara hepworth. Like the contents, the cover is just too busy

James Green@jamesrbgreen· Jun 27

The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford

Norton edition w impressionist painting, thematically appropriate: 'la liaison' by jean paul sinibaldi

James Green@jamesrbgreen· Jun 26

Music this week

Cindy Lee- diamond jubilee
Skee mask- pool
Floetry- floating
Keith hudson- pick a dub
Javelin- canyon candy
Nic jones- from the devil to a stranger
Ulrika spacek- expo
Abc - the lexicon of love
Peshay- reflections

James Green@jamesrbgreen· Jun 21

Farewell, My Lovely - Raymond Chandler

Shamed gangster hides face in b/w. The big sleep and other novels penguin modern classics

James Green@jamesrbgreen· Jun 19

Percival Everett by Virgil Russell - Percival Everett

Collage where the text of the title is made up of two of the same book over each other, one a line drawing, another purple and colourful

James Green@jamesrbgreen· Jun 19

Percival everett shows off some joyceyness

James Green@jamesrbgreen· Jun 13

What I listened to this week

Jana horn s/t
Fela best of-
Mabe fratti and bill orcutt- almost waking
Sun araw- lifetime
Funaná compilation from cape verde
All things must pass - george harrison
Ibrahim alfa jr - infinite black inside
Maria bc- marathon
Sun araw + m. Geddes gengras + the congos - tys vol 9

James Green@jamesrbgreen· Jun 11

The Aesthetics of Resistance, vol. II - Peter Weiss tr. Joel Scott

Detail of the Pergamon frieze with the title laid over it ominously. WG Sebald sez it's a 'magnum opus'

James Green@jamesrbgreen· Jun 6

What i listened to this week

Dagmar zuniga- your mystery is kingdom/far smile peasant in yellow
Barrio húmedo- folklore leonés
Umeko ando - upopo sanke
Anthology of Greek folk music
Jordi sabatés- ocells del més enllà
Kikagaku moyo- house in the tall grass
Miki hirayama- onigashima
Reuben Wilson- set us free
Anthology of Psychedelic rock from cape Verde and angola

James Green@jamesrbgreen· May 29

What i listened to this week

Bread n butter - monday morning
Flying saucer attack s/t
Makoto kubota - Dixie fever
Can - ege bamyasi
Jefre cantu-ledesma- gift songs
Sarah davachi - the head as form'd in the crier's choir
Bob Dylan- highway 61 revisited
Carl perkins - the dance album
Bowie - hunky dory

James Green@jamesrbgreen· May 17

The Spirit of Science Fiction - Roberto Bolaño tr. Natasha Wimmer

Text in black and green, rough and ready style, over a partial image of young man with eyes closed asleep or in ecstasy

James Green@jamesrbgreen· May 17

The Melancholy Science - Gillian Rose

Old cover, ted looks purple and sad

James Green@jamesrbgreen· May 12

The Rustle of Language - Roland Barthes tr. Richard Howard

The title in white handwriting on purple

James Green@jamesrbgreen· May 3

Poems from the Book of Hours - Rainer Maria Rilke tr. Babette Deutsch

Text over print of candles diminishing

James Green@jamesrbgreen· Apr 30

Proensa: An Anthology of Troubadour Poetry - Paul Blackburn, tr.

Collage abstraction of reds, yellows, blue of classical female nudes with lush nyrb textbox in purple and orange laid over it

James Green@jamesrbgreen· Apr 26

Scapegoat, cilla, isle of man ferry terminal. Affectionately known in the Merseyside area as the 'three graces'

Holman hunt's excellent painting the scapegoat in lady lever

Cilla statue arms aloft

Manx signage

James Green@jamesrbgreen· Apr 22

Maldoror & Poems - Lautréamont tr. Paul Knight

Detail from antoine wiertz's 'l'inhumation précipitée' on a penguin classics, terrified man reaching out of coffin, 10/10

James Green@jamesrbgreen· Apr 22

RIP

James Green@jamesrbgreen· Apr 17

Birds of the Sherborne Missal - Elisabeth Bletsoe

Gothic text over a page - you can see the missal has beautiful marginal illustrations of Dorset birds

James Green@jamesrbgreen· Apr 15

Under the Net - Iris Murdoch

Cover is text over detail from still life with mask by hendrick andriessen

James Green@jamesrbgreen· Apr 11

A Different Drummer - William Melvin Kelley

Abstract cover design in 60s style, broken chain and red sun on paper-coloured background

James Green@jamesrbgreen· Apr 8

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country - William H. Gass

Blue pastoral scene suggests ice - nyrb blue box over it

James Green@jamesrbgreen· Apr 1

The Bloater - Rosemary Tonks

Dreadful cover, lilac, a tuxedo becomes writing, too much text including a big 'foreword by Stewart lee' that comes off gauche