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Danielle Clarke

@rhetorician.bsky.social

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early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 22h

Do all three at the same time 😂

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you…sometimes it just seems endless and impossible!

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 1d

She will be in ucd as part of her Ireland prof of poetry gig at some stage

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 1d

Everything about it is perfect.

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 1d

I’m glad it got off the ground!

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 1d

I loved it too. Especially the vapid corporate slogans in the background of many shots

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a fair few novels that depend on the party line

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 1d

Oh oh oh. The divide is real!

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a great idea - thank you so much. I really appreciate your taking time to respond like this. I think could make that work…

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 1d

It’s all about time and iteration

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 1d

It’s way too long!! I couldn’t inflict it on any reader

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 1d

in its relationship to capital, property and people - and that writing is central to the creation of a particular ideal of white female virtue founded on prudence & providence 2/2

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 1d

It hasn’t - needs more trimming first! This is a writing problem bc I wanted to get away from case studies to argue that writing is a way for women to demonstrate their capacity to manage resources and all the consequences that follow - eg that ww is structural and systemic 1/2

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a shame Bluesky doesn’t have polls. My book links quotidian forms of early modern women’s writing to literary forms. I have 6 chapters and only one involves prose - life writing which is important for the overall argument but book too long: should I dump the prose?

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 2d

Manuscript is permanently misplaced

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 2d

There’s no backup file

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 3d

Brilliant idea!

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 3d

A block of wood would make a better president

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 4d

(See also editing own sorry/sad/saggy prose)

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 4d

👀👀👀

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 4d

I go with what we taught our kids; don’t comment on anything about anyone’s appearance unless it’s “I like your jumper” or they bring it up first. Simple

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 4d

I was particularly interested in the mention of humoral medicine - and how this current way of thinking reprises that

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 4d

The ways that they and I talk about being human are not the same

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 4d

No, you don’t need a cortisol detox. Why are we so addicted to the new language of therapy?

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

This is very interesting and insightful- I notice this discourse used by my teenagers and it is a generational chasm

Mark O'Connell: No, you don’t need a cortisol detox. Why are we so addicted to the new language of therapy?

People buy into a chemical understanding of human psychology when really what they’re describing is our deeply complex, irreducibly mysterious inner life

www.irishtimes.com

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely

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