Doubling kickstarts a mechanism that generates uncountable multitudes, whose diverse multiplicity contrasts starkly with the image of one nation, one people.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.

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Writing is rendered a battle of betrayal and counter-betrayal, whereby it is not truth (fidelity) that leads to the real, but subterfuge (perfidy) that gives us the really real, the heart of the matter!

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.

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Bolaño's fiction, whether set in Chile or Mexico, is as much about a memory of Latin America as it is about the region’s actuality, even if that memory is sometimes also a memory of the future.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.

For RMST 202. ⁠https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/⁠

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The power of writing has little to do with whatever meaning it may convey, subject to interpretation, but rather with the book as fetish object, the materiality of paper.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.

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Postmodernism, by putting truth in question (or in brackets) does not necessarily abandon either politics or ethics.By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.00:00 Introduction01:48 Postmodernity, Postmodernism, and Fragments07:50 Questions11:15 Life Writing and the Return of the Subject19:49 CreditsFor RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/

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The novel resists the imposition of meaning and emotion, to affirm instead vitality and affect. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.00:00 Introduction 01:40 Translation and Feelings03:18 Questions 08:58 Affect on the Surface 19:40 Credits For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/

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The ruins of the modern, everything that escapes but also haunts it, reveal modernity’s true shape.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.

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A Conversation for RMST 202. With Farid Laroussi (UBC) and Jon Beasley-Murray.

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It aims to shake us out of our habits, so we become more active readers, and as such better readers.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.

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A Conversation for RMST 202. With Naomi Lindstrom (University of Texas at Austin) and Jon Beasley-Murray.

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