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The Midnight MiracleA Marvelous Day for an Exorcism (Reprise)“Everything is upside down!”The Midnight Miracle crew, along with guests Jon Stewart and Q-Tip, get real on what's f'd-up in America. Featuring: Bill Murray, Arthur Jaffa, Pharoahe Monch, Jon Stewart, and Q-Tip Contains audio clips featuring Maya Angelou, and music from (in order of appearance) Harry Belafonte, th1rt3en, Bekon, Kahil El'Zabar, Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd St Rhythm Band, Willie Dunn, and Quincy JonesRecorded in Ohio. Executive Produced by Talib Kweli, yasiin bey, Dave Chappelle, Noah Gersh, Jamie Schefman, Nick Panama...
2025-02-2628 min
Inventing Romance StudiesA World of DifferenceIf the hallmark of literary representation is that it is an unfaithful representation of the real, then perhaps the most literary texts are those that betray (disclose or let slip) that infidelity even as they indulge in it themselves.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.
00:00 Introduction
02:07 Patterns of Commonality and Difference
03:36 Questions
04:57 Growing Up and Betrayal
14:24 Romance Studies as Minor Literature
20:09 Credits
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2024-04-0820 min
Inventing Romance StudiesMy Brilliant Friend: Elena Ferrante on Class, Capital, and LanguageThe best they can do, it seems, is embrace their fate, fight for their own servitude.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.
00:00 Introduction
02:04 Acquiring a Taste for Domination
06:53 Questions
11:00 Mobilizing the Politics of Language
19:33 Credits
Full text here: https://rmst202.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2022/02/brilliant-friend.pdf
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2024-03-3119 min
Inventing Romance StudiesFaces in the Crowd: Valeria Luiselli’s Haunted Times and PlacesThis is a novel that is both in transit and in translation.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.
00:00 Introduction
02:23 Politics as Necropolitics
11:08 Questions
14:03 Burrowing through Space
26:21 Credits
For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/
#romancestudies #rmst202
2024-03-3126 min
Inventing Romance StudiesDeath with Interruptions: José Saramago on Necropolitics and ResurrectionArt may not be able to evade death, but through performance it can be a vehicle of resurrection.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.
00:00 Introduction
03:18 Politics as Necropolitics
07:25 Questions
10:14 Reading as Resurrection
20:03 Credits
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#romancestudies #rmst202
2024-03-2520 min
Inventing Romance StudiesMoney to Burn: Ricardo Piglia on Genre, Truth, and MoneyMoney is, after all, one of the most powerful fictions that structure social relations.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.
00:00 Introduction
08:49 Based on a True Story
20:41 Questions
22:38 Bonfire of the Vanities
35:05 Credits
For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/
#romancestudies #rmst202
2024-03-1735 min
Inventing Romance StudiesThe Trenchcoat: Norman Manea on Interpretation and ComplicityThere is a margin of uncertainty in life as in literature, and a strange resonance between the experiences of living in Communist society and engaging with a text, both of which are exercises in close reading, a hermeneutics of suspicion.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.
00:00 Introduction
04:06 The Uncertainty of Interpretation
05:54 Questions
13:43 The Temptations of Complicity
19:20 Credits
For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/#rmst202 #romancestudies
2024-03-1519 min
Inventing Romance StudiesThe Book of Chameleons: José Eduardo Agualusa on Duplicity, Tribute, and RevengeIt may be nice to think we can reinvent ourselves, construct new pasts and precursors, and fiction encourages us in this fantasy. But there are scars that simply will not fade.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.
00:00 Introduction
06:22 The Powers of the False
07:03 Questions
16:02 History's Revenge
26:42 Credits
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#romancestudies #rmst202
2024-03-1526 min
Inventing Romance StudiesThe Lover: Marguerite Duras Returns to the ThresholdIn rewriting the lover, Duras also rewrites herself, her origin as writer, in a precarious zone shuttling between past and future and back again.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.
00:00 Introduction
03:11 Approaching Agency
09:35 Questions
12:19 Rewriting Hierarchy
22:01 Credits
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#romancestudies #rmst202
2024-03-1122 min
Inventing Romance StudiesIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler: Italo Calvino and the Ends of DiscourseYou, of course, may take your reading of the novel in some other direction, reach your own conclusions.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.
00:00 Introduction
04:40 Metafiction and Materiality
08:47 Questions
17:53 Escaping Gendered Endings
26:14 Credits
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#romancestudies #rmst202
2024-03-0426 min
Inventing Romance StudiesBlack Shack Alley: Joseph Zobel, Development, and WritingIt is as though Black labour existed wholly outside language altogether, or at least outside the French language.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.
00:00 Introduction
01:56 The Problem with Development
07:30 Questions
10:47 The Pleasure, Possibilities, and Dangers of Writing
19:23 Credits
For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/#rmst202 #romancestudies
2024-02-1719 min
Inventing Romance StudiesThe Time of the Doves: Mercè Rodoreda on Destitution and BricolageThe challenge is to try to stitch things up, paper over the cracks, create new attachments or conjunctions of people and objects in a bricolage that is no longer indebted to myths of organic harmony or natural inclination.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.
00:00 Introduction
02:30 Bare Life
08:56 Questions
11:50 Putting back the Pieces
19:27 Credits
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2024-02-1719 min
Inventing Romance StudiesDeep Rivers: José María Arguedas on Conflict and Convergence Without EndIf colonization is not (yet) complete, then the outcome of this struggle is perhaps still to be determined.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
04:43 Never-Ending Stories
12:42 Questions
17:37 Approaching Reconciliation
27:52 Credits
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#romancestudies #rmst202
2024-02-1528 min
Inventing Romance StudiesNada: Carmen Laforet on Narrative, Memory, and TraumaThe scars of conflict are everywhere evident, if seldom dwelt upon, in Laforet’s novel.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.
00:00 Introduction
01:42 Nothing like a Story
08:20 Questions
10:08 Memory and the Open Secret
17:01 Credits
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2024-02-0117 min
Inventing Romance StudiesAgostino: Alberto Moravia and the Return of the RealAgostino’s loss is inherent to language, whose powers to name always fall short.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.
00:00 Introduction
01:26 Size Isn't Everything
06:56 Questions
08:32 Oedipus at Sea
16:35 Credits
For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/#rmst202 #romancestudies
2024-02-0116 min
Inventing Romance StudiesThe Hour of the Star: Clarice Lispector's Struggle with Writing and EthicsIt is about an ethics of writing, about how writing can be true to life, to “a life,” without necessarily laying claim to the truth of that life. It is about the hesitations, affirmations, and disruptive explosions that mark any text as it tries to describe and negotiate the world.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
10:59 A Hesitant Ethics
13:20 Questions
21:29 An Interrupted Consumption
31:02 Credits
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#romancestudies #rmst202
2024-01-2631 min
Inventing Romance StudiesThe Shrouded Woman: María Luisa Bombal and Peripheral ModernismThe power of fiction resides in the fact that it is not simply mimicry—or rather, that even mimicry is more than mere copy.
2024-01-2517 min
Inventing Romance StudiesInventing Romance StudiesRomance Studies emerges when tradition is infiltrated and overthrown by the demotic, by the everyday speech of a nameless multitude.
2024-01-2316 min
Inventing Romance StudiesNadja: André Breton’s Flirtation with MadnessWe are challenged to impose some sense on the disorder the book shows us, through either analysis or fiction, but also to postpone that sense-making, to live (however briefly) with the unexpected contingencies of modern life.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.
00:00 Introduction
02:49 Fictions of the Self and Others
08:21 Questions
15:38 Risking the Self with Others
24:48 Credits
#romancestudies #rmst202
2024-01-2325 min
Inventing Romance StudiesMad Toy: Roberto Arlt on Picaresque Betrayal and RebirthArlt steals from the literary tradition, as with his theft of elements of the picaresque, but he also turns his back on it, betrays it, gives it a figurative middle finger, by opening up his text to the cacophonous demotic of the Buenos Aires streets.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.
00:00 Introduction
02:39 The Picaresque, Pulp Fiction, and New Forms of Representation
05:35 Questions
11:28 The Politics and Aesthetics of Betrayal
21:00 Credits
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2024-01-2221 minThe Midnight MiracleA Magnificent Day for an Exorcism“Everything is upside down!”The Midnight Miracle crew is back—they, along with guests Jon Stewart and Q-Tip, get real on what's f'd-up in America today.Featuring: Bill Murray, Arthur Jaffa, Pharoahe Monch, Jon Stewart, and Q-Tip Contains audio clips featuring Maya Angelou, and music from (in order of appearance) Harry Belafonte, th1rt3en, Bekon, Kahil El'Zabar, Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd St Rhythm Band, Willie Dunn, and Quincy JonesRecorded in Ohio. Executive Produced by Talib Kweli, yasiin bey, Dave Chappelle, Noah Gersh...
2024-01-1028 min
Hopscotch!Hopscotch! Time to Play a Different GameLiterature constructs for us scenarios and spaces in which, at least for a time, other habits and customs are in play, and which thus allow us to see that the rules of the everyday games that we play are as arbitrary as any others.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
02:17 Patterns of Commonality and Difference
04:00 Questions
16:06 Seeing and Playing Difference
30:56 Credits
For Hopscotch! https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/
#hopscotch #span312 #rmst372 #latinamericanliterature
2023-04-1031 min
Hopscotch!On Latin American literatureA conversation for SPAN 312 about teaching and reading Latin American literature. With Erin Graff Zivin and Jon Beasley-Murray.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/.
00:00 Introduction
01:13 The Canon and Beyond
08:28 Latin America and Beyond
10:37 Images of Latin America
14:20 The Latin American Writer and the Tradition
19:40 Going Beyond Ourselves
22:27 Reading as Misreading
25:55 Inexhaustible Texts
29:54 Good Enough Readings
38:07 Repetition and Learning
37:40 Credits
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2023-04-0837 min
Hopscotch!Fever Dream: Samanta Schweblin on the Force of the HyperobjectAs with a game we have started that gets out of hand, it can feel that all we can do is look on as events unfold when confronted with the seemingly irresistible force of a hyperobject in motion once a tipping point has been passed.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
06:27 The Chemistry of Anxiety
14:10 Questions
17:56 The Shadow of the Hyperobject
26:03 Credits
For Hopscotch! https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/
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2023-04-0626 min
Hopscotch!Cristina Rivera Garza in ConversationA conversation for SPAN 312 about Cristina Rivera Garza's The Taiga Syndrome. With Cristina Rivera Garza and Jon Beasley-Murray. In which we talk about tone, translation, and escape, among other things.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/.
00:00 Introduction
01:38 Distance and Indirect Language
06:01 Tone and Experience
10:55 Mediation and the Archive
16:05 Quotation and Subversion
18:59 Speech and Concealment
22:57 Translation and Communality
26:37 Escape and Vanishing Points
28:30 Credits
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2023-04-0528 min
Hopscotch!The Taiga Syndrome: Cristina Rivera Garza in a World without RefugeThis is the wild west (wild north?) Russian style—or Swedish or Latvian, even Mexican or Argentine, it matters little, as it is the same almost everywhere now that untrammeled extraction reduces and eliminates any refuge a forest may offer, for wolves or for children, or for lovers on the lam.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
03:37 Beginnings, Endings, and Limits
15:39 Questions
18:26 Forests, Failures, and Low-Level Fear
29:17 Credits
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2023-04-0429 min
Hopscotch!On Rita Indiana, PapiA conversation for SPAN 312 about Rita Indiana's novel, Papi. With Arturo Victoriano and Jon Beasley-Murray.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/
00:00 Introduction
01:10 A History of Migration
04:00 One Foot Here and Another One There
11:19 The Smell of Success
17:47 The Sounds of Progress
22:13 From Trujillo to Balaguer and Beyond
28:56 Dreams and Reality
33:16 Credits
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2023-03-3133 min
Hopscotch!Papi: Rita Indiana on Role-Playing, Excess, and LossIn a world in which movies, adverts, music videos, video games, and television all blend and cross-contaminate, new cross-cultural and transnational jargons and slang arise, and new roles to play, to compensate for the increasing inequalities and unbridled violence that are also associated with unregulated markets, be they legal or illegal.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
04:34 Constructing Excess
15:16 Questions
17:47 Loving the Game
32:06 Credits
For Hopscotch! https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/
#hopscotch #span312 #rmst372 #latinamericanliterature
2023-03-3032 min
Hopscotch!On Pedro Lemebel, My Tender MatadorA conversation for SPAN 312 about Chilean Pedro Lemebel's novel, My Tender Matador. With Juan Poblete and Jon Beasley-Murray.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/
00:00 Introduction
01:22 Three Approaches to My Tender Matador
02:55 Lemebel's Context
07:35 A Theory of the Novel
14:02 A Politics of the Pose
19:40 An Affective Reconstruction of the 1980s
25:38 The Popular Baroque
30:58 Credits
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2023-03-2931 min
Hopscotch!My Tender Matador: Pedro Lemebel on Playing the PartWe are encouraged to take surfaces or appearances seriously in their own right.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
02:56 Names, Playacting, and Embellishment
09:44 Questions
14:55 Power, Performance, and Impurity
24:11 Credits
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#hopscotch #span312 #rmst372 #latinamericanliterature
2023-03-2824 min
Hopscotch!Giannina Braschi in ConversationA conversation for SPAN 312 about Giannina Braschi's Yo-Yo Boing! With Giannina Braschi and Jon Beasley-Murray. In which we talk about language, cosmopolitanism, the collective, and the end of the twentieth century.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/.
00:00 Introduction
01:32 Looking from a Distance
02:57 An Aperture in the World
06:49 From Spanish to English
10:01 Invading the North
12:36 Always Cosmopolitan
16:55 A Chorus of Voices
19:25 Yo-Yo
20:58 Waiting for Liberation
23:07 The End of the Twentieth Century
26:50 (Mis)Understanding
30:42 Credits
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2023-03-2431 min
Hopscotch!Yo-Yo Boing! Giannina Braschi on Translation, Temporality, and the FutureBraschi’s novel resists translation both because it is already in translation—and translation cannot be translated—and because it touches on the untranslatable, on the limits of language and meaning.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
06:37 Translation, Movement, and Nonsense
11:11 Questions
16:05 Kairos and the Future Event
26:43 Credits
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#hopscotch #span312 #rmst372 #latinamericanliterature
2023-03-2327 min
Hopscotch!On Roberto Bolaño, Distant StarA conversation for SPAN 312 about Roberto Bolaño's post-dictatorship novel, Distant Star. With Ryan Long and Jon Beasley-Murray.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/.
00:00 Introduction
01:04 Crime Fiction and Poetry Workshops
05:04 Correspondence and Investigation
09:44 Collaboration and Conversation
14:48 Violence Explicable and Inexplicable
18:39 Loss and Recovery
22:01 Writing and Reading
25:00 An Expanding Universe
26:43 Credits
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2023-03-2127 min
Hopscotch!Distant Star: Roberto Bolaño on Aesthetics, Fascism, and JudgmentLiterature can never forget that it is first and foremost an index of barbarism, and only secondarily (if at all) any kind of recompense or restitution.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
14:31 Art and Atrocity
15:42 Fascism's Contradictions
18:58 Questions
30:24 Ni Olvido, Ni Perdón
34:40 Credits
For Hopscotch! https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/
#hopscotch #span312 #rmst372 #latinamericanliterature
2023-03-2034 min
Hopscotch!On Rigoberta Menchú, I, Rigoberta MenchúA conversation for SPAN 312 about Rigoberta Menchú's famed but controversial testimonio, I, Rigoberta Menchú. With John Beverley and Jon Beasley-Murray.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/.
00:00 Introduction
01:30 Defining Testimonio
08:12 Testimonio's Contexts
12:41 A New Political Subject
18:13 The Culture Wars
23:31 The Politics of Truth
30:33 Testimonio Today
38:50 Credits
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2023-03-1539 min
Hopscotch!I, Rigoberta Menchú: Rigoberta Menchú on Secrets and Lies, Traps and BetrayalHowever much we imagine or hope we are in solidarity with her and her struggle, we are reminded that the basis of that solidarity has to be difference and respect. Her struggle is not ours, and never will be.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
10:44 Private Pacts and Public Secrets
19:55 Questions
22:53 Captivation and Betrayal
33:28 Games of Entrapment
42:50 Credits
For Hopscotch! https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/
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2023-03-1443 min
Hopscotch!On Mario Vargas Llosa, Captain Pantoja and the Special ServiceA conversation for SPAN 312 about Mario Vargas Llosa's comic novel, Captain Pantoja and the Special Service. With Phil Swanson and Jon Beasley-Murray.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/.
00:00 Introduction
01:19 Rethinking Civilization and Barbarism
10:44 The Business of Sex
14:38 A Shift from Left to Right
18:45 Technology and Form
23:18 Ambivalence and Multiple Readings
25:23 The Limits of Machismo
28:29 Credits
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2023-03-1028 min
Hopscotch!Captain Pantoja and the Special Service: Mario Vargas Llosa’s Comic AnarchyIn Vargas Llosa’s world, something is almost always fucked up—a death, a massacre, a marriage, a disappearance—and it is up to him or his characters to find out why and how.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
09:19 Making Fun of Seriousness
10:47 Questions
15:46 Taking Fun Seriously
28:08 Credits
For Hopscotch! https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/
#hopscotch #span312 #rmst372 #latinamericanliterature
2023-03-0928 min
Hopscotch!On Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the StarA conversation for SPAN 312 about Clarice Lispector's last novel, The Hour of the Star. With Sonia Roncador and Jon Beasley-Murray.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/.
00:00 Introduction
01:11 The Culmination of a Process
09:56 The Challenge of Unfamiliarity
18:42 The Limits of Realism
27:41 A Compulsion to Care
31:45 The Possibility of Hope
34:42 Credits
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2023-03-0835 min
Hopscotch!The Hour of the Star: Clarice Lispector’s Struggle with Writing and EthicsIt is about an ethics of writing, about how writing can be true to life, to “a life,” without necessarily laying claim to the truth of that life. It is about the hesitations, affirmations, and disruptive explosions that mark any text as it tries to describe and negotiate the world.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
11:03 A Hesitant Ethics
13:24 Questions
21:33 An Interrupted Consumption
31:06 Credits
For Hopscotch! https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/
#hopscotch #span312 #rmst372 #latinamericanliterature
2023-03-0731 min
Hopscotch!On Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of SolitudeA conversation for SPAN 312 about Gabriel García Márquez's most famous book, One Hundred Years of Solitude. With Gerald Martin and Jon Beasley-Murray.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/.
00:00 Introduction
01:36 Approaching García Márquez
09:18 A Book that Anticipates its own Reading
13:00 A Book of Histories
21:08 A Book of Ambition
29:12 Meeting García Márquez
36:29 Credits
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2023-03-0136 min
Hopscotch!One Hundred Years of Solitude II: Gabriel García Márquez on Disaster and ExcessIt is perhaps because ultimately Macondo is so full of the ghosts of the motley cast of characters that have wandered through the book’s pages, that García Márquez can only put an end to it all by shouting “enough!” and bringing on a cataclysmic hurricane that tears the whole place down.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
03:38 Ruins as Destiny
07:22 Questions
10:45 Open and Shut
18:53 Multiple and Singular
26:14 Credits
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2023-02-2826 min
Hopscotch!One Hundred Years of Solitude I: Gabriel García Márquez on Chance and OrderThe book militantly refuses regimentation, but is aware that “proliferation” can also be a “plague,” even as it flirts with excess at every turn.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
07:30 An Intricate Game of Confusion
14:34 Questions
16:43 A Gigantic Organization of Games of Luck and Chance
24:18 Credits
For Hopscotch! https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/
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2023-02-1424 min
Hopscotch!On Juan Rulfo, Pedro PáramoA conversation for SPAN 312 about Juan Rulfo's novel, Pedro Páramo. With Gareth Williams and Jon Beasley-Murray.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/.
00:00 Introduction
01:07 A Singular Novel
06:53 Progress Curtailed
10:55 A Novel of Mexico?
12:56 A Novel of Survival
14:06 The Possibility of Escape?
16:56 Fascination and Rumour
21:03 The Afterlife of Pedro Páramo
24:37 The Experience of Tragedy
26:16 Credits
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2023-02-1026 min
Hopscotch!Pedro Páramo: Juan Rulfo on Persistence and TransitionHere, the signs and impact of the sovereign, the legacy of a bitter past, are everywhere to be seen. But he is haunted by murmurs, voices, that never entirely go away.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
03:37 Life, Death, and What Lies In Between
07:52 Questions
12:29 The Shadow of the Cacique
18:46 Credits
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2023-02-0919 min
Hopscotch!On Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of This WorldA conversation for SPAN 312 about Alejo Carpentier's novel of the Haitian Revolution, The Kingdom of This World. With Luis Duno-Gottberg and Jon Beasley-Murray.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/.
00:00 Introduction
01:03 Music and History
03:10 Latin American Difference
08:06 Unpacking Mestizaje
11:52 Ti Noël's Saga
17:17 An End to Flight
21:37 The Value of Struggle
26:04 Carpentier's Legacy
28:37 Credits
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2023-02-0828 min
Hopscotch!The Kingdom of This World: Alejo Carpentier Re-Stages HistoryIt is the fact that in Haiti—and the Americas more generally—two (or more) perspectives rub up against each other and clash, shattering the notion that they can harmoniously be contained within the same organic totality, that provokes the surprised awe and wonder that Carpentier reports experiencing, and attempts to recreate in this novel.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
06:46 The Real Marvellous
10:24 Questions
17:54 History Replayed
27:48 Credits
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2023-02-0728 min
Hopscotch!On Jorge Luis Borges, LabyrinthsA conversation for SPAN 312 about Jorge Luis Borges's collection of translated stories and other short texts, Labyrinths. With Daniel Balderston and Jon Beasley-Murray.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/.
00:00 Introduction
01:37 Labyrinths
06:37 Genre
10:07 Sources
16:38 Fictions
20:23 Re-Reading
24:03 The Borges Center
27:03 How Borges Wrote
31:14 Credits
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2023-02-0131 min
Hopscotch!Labyrinths: Jorge Luis Borges on Difference and RepetitionBorges exposes secret complicities, as when apparent oppositions hide more fundamental similarities. But he is also concerned with how novelty and change emerge from repetition, how real difference arises from the most minor of variations.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
04:22 Undermining Difference
09:24 Questions
13:44 Questioning Similarity
22:04 Credits
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2023-01-3122 min
Hopscotch!On Gabriela Mistral, MadwomenA conversation for SPAN 312 about the collection Madwomen: The Locas mujeres Poems of Gabriela Mistral. With Licia Fiol-Matta and Jon Beasley-Murray.
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00:00 Introduction
01:20 Readings of Mistral
10:50 Disordering Desire
29:02 Normalizing Mistral
36:35 Credits
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2023-01-2736 min
Hopscotch!Madwomen: Gabriela Mistral, the Icon, and her OthersMistral takes advantage of her status as representative, and the representational capacities of language, to make visible the traces of what otherwise escapes the official order of things.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
03:24 Literary Value, Representation, and Iconicity
05:23 Questions
15:12 Doubles, Madness, and Femininity
23:37 Credits
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2023-01-2623 min
Hopscotch!On Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of DespairA conversation for SPAN 312 and RMST 202 about Pablo Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. With Brianne Orr-Alvarez and Jon Beasley-Murray.
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00:00 Introduction
01:14 Encountering Neruda
05:08 Giving Form to Emotion
09:15 An Absent Beloved?
17:53 Twilight and Poetic Voice
23:46 Credits
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2023-01-2524 min
Hopscotch!Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: Pablo Neruda’s Image of the WriterA great writer not only writes great work, but also, more fundamentally and importantly, changes our sense of what great work is, and even charts a new role for the writer in society.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
02:51 This is Not a Love Song
05:50 Questions
15:16 Tonight I Can Write
27:15 Credits
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2023-01-2427 min
Hopscotch!On Nellie Campobello, CartuchoA conversation for SPAN 312 about Nellie Campobello's novel of the Mexican Revolution, Cartucho. With Ryan Long and Jon Beasley-Murray.
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00:00 Introduction
01:23 Pancho Villa and the Mexican Revolution
06:56 Sense and Senselessness
11:36 Intimacy and Care
16:16 Preservation and Memory
21:42 Unquiet Ghosts
26:11 Credits
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2023-01-2026 min
Hopscotch!Cartucho: Nellie Campobello on History through the Eyes of a ChildCampobello restores the idea that something was truly at stake in a conflict that can otherwise appear so chaotic and disorderly: at its best, it was fought for the right to play, to laugh, to feel, to be free from constraint.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
03:10 Fragmentation and the End of History
13:05 Questions
15:50 Play and the Revolution as Game
26:24 Credits
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2023-01-1926 min
Hopscotch!On Mariano Azuela, The UnderdogsA conversation for SPAN 312 about Mariano Azuela's novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs (Los de abajo). With Ignacio Sánchez Prado and Jon Beasley-Murray.
For more details, see https://span312.arts.ubc.ca/.
00:00 Introduction
01:27 Canonizing Insurgency
04:29 Making Sense of Villismo
09:05 War, Intensity, and Orality
16:39 Melancholy and Refusal
20:22 The Role of the Intellectual
23:24 Credits
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2023-01-1923 min
Hopscotch!The Underdogs: Mariano Azuela, Writing, and InfrapoliticsAzuela reveals aspects of the Revolution that are apolitical, anti-political, or even infrapolitical (the non-political conditions of possibility for the political), in that he depicts it in terms of drives and emergent habits that have not yet fully coalesced into political form.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
03:52 From Affect to Ideology
07:59 Questions
12:39 From Sublime Articulation to Infrapolitics
20:05 Credits
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2023-01-1720 min
Hopscotch!Mama Blanca's Memoirs: Teresa de la Parra and the Plurality of HistoryThis is a “backwoods” history that aims, with gentle irony, to question the usual privileging of “civilization” over “barbarism” that otherwise structures most literary depictions of nineteenth-century Latin America.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
01:48 Publication and Betrayal
06:24 Questions
12:14 Domination without Hegemony
20:58 Credits
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2023-01-1221 min
Hopscotch!Hopscotch! The Rules of the GameWhat is the “play”—the “freedom, opportunity, or room for action; scope for activity”—that literature offers, once we realize that there is no one “right” way of reading?
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
00:00 Introduction
01:36 Playing with Context
11:36 Hopping from Theme to Method
14:49 Questions
23:20 Credits
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2023-01-0923 min
The Midnight MiracleA Magnificent Day for an Exorcism“Everything is upside down!”The Midnight Miracle crew is back—they, along with guests Jon Stewart and Q-Tip, get real on what's f'd-up in America today.Hear the full episode now, and new episodes weekly in 2023. Subscribe to Luminary: https://luminary.link/miracleFeaturing: Bill Murray, Arthur Jaffa, Pharoahe Monch, Jon Stewart, and Q-Tip Contains audio clips featuring Maya Angelou, and music from (in order of appearance) Harry Belafonte, th1rt3en, Bekon, Kahil El'Zabar, Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd St Rhythm Band, Willie Dunn, and Quincy JonesRecorded in Ohio.
2022-12-1907 min
Stuart Parker Dot CACocktail Hour with Stuart Parker - S02E15: Jon Beasley-Murray/MargaritasJon and I meant to discuss three issues on the show but discovered that an hour had passed talking about the first one, the state of the modern university.
2022-10-191h 13
BibleProjectIn the Beginning – John 1The apostle John is the most poetic of the Gospel storytellers, but what is he really communicating with his beautiful, imagery-laden language? Join Tim, Jon, and Carissa for a closer look at John 1 and discover how John incorporates elements of the Genesis and Exodus narratives to form a portrait of how God responds to rebellious people.View full show notes from this episode →Timestamps Part one (0-13:15)Part two (13:15-24:45)Part three (24:45-37:30)Part four (37:30-48:00)Part five (48:00-54:00)Part six (54:00-1:01:17)Referenced ResourcesDavid Andrew Teeter, Hebrew Bible scholarWilliam Arthur Tooman, Heb...
2021-10-251h 01