Tim Beasley-Murray
"You still haven’t figured out what riding waves is all about, hey? It’s a state of mind."
European Thought and Culture, UCL; games that get out of hand.
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- Reposted by Tim Beasley-MurrayOur Annual Review 2024/25 is here! 👇 From policy to culture, the European Institute spent 2024–25 connecting experts, shaping debate, and bringing research to life across Europe. Read the full review: www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...
- My friend and colleague, Michael Collins's Windrush Cricket arrived in the post today. Christmas has come early! @uclhistory.bsky.social y.social @academic.oup.com
- The @karolinumpress.cuni.cz will be publishing my Critical Games in Czech. Such a privilege! Here's hoping that Czech and Slovak readers enjoy my takes on Kundera, Vilikovský, Juráňová, alongside Carrère, de Vigan, Bolaño, etc. @manchesterup.bsky.social
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- MY PUBLISHED BOOK! Emmanuel Carrère says it "explodes all academic frames and expectations", so handle with care! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177766/
- PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book! www.versobooks.com/products/303...
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- Today! @manchesterup.bsky.social
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- If you are in London on 2nd December and interested in Critical Games, do come and help launch it at the UCL Institute of Advance Studies! I'll be in discussion with Abigail Wiliams (Oxford/KCL). @manchesterup.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social @ucl-ias.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
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- I have long been a, well not a fan as such, but an avid and intrigued reader of Christian Kracht. His vision of the world is disturbing but once you have seen it, you just can’t look away! Great to see his book doing so well now in English.
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- Reposted by Tim Beasley-MurrayIt's official @fmussgnug.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social has sold out the Gustave Tuck. Clearly we do, indeed, love apocalypses too much.
- Large red-letter day Tues 28 Oct @uclselcs.bsky.social + @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social when my wonderful colleague @fmussgnug.bsky.social will give his inaugural professorial lecture on why we love apocalypse so much (and maybe shouldn't…?). In person, 18:00. #Anthropocene, #envhum, #literature
- Want to find out more about Critical Games? About how games can get serious, whether played by academics or by authors of fiction and non-fiction? Listen to this new @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast with @drdaveobrien.bsky.social about my book. @manchesterup.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social
- Such a pleasure to talk with @drdaveobrien.bsky.social about my book, Criticsl Games for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Do have a listen! newbooksnetwork.com/critical-games
- Such a pleasure to talk with @drdaveobrien.bsky.social about my book, Criticsl Games for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Do have a listen! newbooksnetwork.com/critical-games
- Reposted by Tim Beasley-MurrayMy New Books Network interview with Prof Dave O’Brien is now available: newbooksnetwork.com/culture-capi... @drdaveobrien.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
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- With her extraordinary work—in collaboration with her husband, Peter—no one has done more to promote Slovak literature in the anglophone world than @juliasherwood.bsky.social And this latest translation of powerful short stories about the atrocity and violence of the Second World War is a triumph.
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- Reposted by Tim Beasley-MurrayPopular this week on #MLO 📣 'Black Skin, Red Masques: Reading Frantz Fanon and Audre Lorde in Tension with Edgar Allan Poe' by @xineyaophd.bsky.social @qucl.bsky.social Read it #OpenAccess on MLO: bit.ly/BlackSkin-RedMasques @timb-m.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social @ucldiscovery.bsky.social
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- “Every man who plays with literature at all must be ambitious to succeed in some form of art that may be called 'creative,' as distinct from critical—a distinction which, since Arnold taught us our lesson, we know does not exist. ” Macy's nascent Creative-criticsm @creativecritical.bsky.social
- Quoted in John Albert Macy's The Critical Game, 1922. A curious book that I wish I had know about when playing my own Critical Games.
- “Contre l'opinion commune, la critique est peut-être le plus subjectif de tous les genres littéraires; c'est une confession perpétuelle; en croyant analyser les œuvres d'autrui, c'est soi-même que l'on dévoile et que l'on expose au public." Remy de Gourmont
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- A starting point of my book: in the eyes of right wing critics, the academic humanities are simultaneously a serious threat & a total joke. I argue that insisting on seriousness isn’t enough; we need to own up to and even embrace our playfulness. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177766/
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- Here's my piece on Trumpian cheating in the Conversation. For more on how games can get serious, take a look at my book, Critical Games manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177766/ @manchesterup.bsky.social
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- Book launch for the Anti-Atlas. London, Tuesday. uclpress.co.uk/book-launch-...
- Book launch for the Anti-Atlas. London, Tuesday. uclpress.co.uk/book-launch-...
- The Salt Path scandal—an assault of fiction on life. In Critical Games, I explore how literary games can blur the line between play and reality—sometimes with real-world consequences. manchesterup.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/978152617776... www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
- "[Brexit] was put to the people as if it was some sort of Eton game." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... In Critical Games manchesterup.bsky.social I explore how power turns politics into a game whose consequences fall on those who can least afford them. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/978152617776...
- "[Brexit] was put to the people as if it was some sort of Eton game." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... In Critical Games manchesterup.bsky.social I explore how power turns politics into a game whose consequences fall on those who can least afford them. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/978152617776...
- Reposted by Tim Beasley-MurrayLooking for some summer reading? All MUP books including The Return of the Housewife are available with a 50% discount until 7 July here: linktr.ee/ManchesterUn... @manchesterup.bsky.social
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- Further content: DeLillo's “shot that was heard around the world”, Slovak feminist revenge, Dickens’s Miss Mowcher, Squid Game, Czech Structuralism, Parisian narcissism, Bentham’s corpse & a Cambridge lamppost, more rugby (Welsh), Academics at parties, Sartre's literary graveyards, failed holidays
- Critical Games. Published 17 June. Derrida eating a crisp; the Slovene Art Theorist and Abraham the Inuk; De Vigan, Bolaño, Kafka; fun and games with Emmanuel Carrère; there is even a joke, hidden in the index.... manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/978152617777.... @manchesterup.bsky.social
- Further, further content: “the shot that was heard around the world”, Dickens’s Miss Mowcher, Squid Game, Czech Structuralism, Parisian narcissism, Bentham’s corpse & a Cambridge lamppost, more rugby (Welsh)
- Further content: Alexievich up to no good, Lorraine Kelly’s tax affairs, Archimboldian cannibals, all Kundera in 4.5 words, a joke about cows, Greek nightingales, The Purge franchise, one line of Polish poetry, rugby and snooker
- Critical Games. Published 17 June. Derrida eating a crisp; the Slovene Art Theorist and Abraham the Inuk; De Vigan, Bolaño, Kafka; fun and games with Emmanuel Carrère; there is even a joke, hidden in the index.... manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/978152617777.... @manchesterup.bsky.social
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- Published in the new issue of the Journal of Popular Film and Television, out now! @tandfresearch.bsky.social @tomue.bsky.social
- My piece on play in Point Break! Open access, published today. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... “Do you know how we nail the bad guys, Utah? By crunching data." Johnny Utah's boss tells him. Well, I crunched the data and here are the results...
- Published in the new issue of the Journal of Popular Film and Television, out now! @tomue.bsky.social
- “You still haven’t figured out what riding waves is all about, hey? It’s a state of mind. It’s that place where you lose yourself and where you find yourself.” Bodhi to Utah. Well, now you can lose yourself in my article about play in cult classic, Point Break. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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- Published in the Journal of Popular Film and Television @tandfresearch.bsky.social
- “You still haven’t figured out what riding waves is all about, hey? It’s a state of mind. It’s that place where you lose yourself and where you find yourself.” Bodhi to Utah. Well, now you can lose yourself in my article about play in cult classic, Point Break. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Published in the Journal of Popular Film and Television @tandfresearch.bsky.social
- My piece on play in Point Break! Open access, published today. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... “Do you know how we nail the bad guys, Utah? By crunching data." Johnny Utah's boss tells him. Well, I crunched the data and here are the results...
- “You still haven’t figured out what riding waves is all about, hey? It’s a state of mind. It’s that place where you lose yourself and where you find yourself.” Bodhi to Utah. Well, now you can lose yourself in my article about play in cult classic, Point Break. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- My piece on play in Point Break! Open access, published today. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... “Do you know how we nail the bad guys, Utah? By crunching data." Johnny Utah's boss tells him. Well, I crunched the data and here are the results...
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- Critical games: On play and seriousness in academia, literature and REAL LIFE! @manchesterup.bsky.social
- Published today! My book on play and seriousness. “… explodes all academic frames and expectations.” Emmanuel Carrère @manchesterup.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177766/
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- Critical Games. Published 17 June. Derrida eating a crisp; the Slovene Art Theorist and Abraham the Inuk; De Vigan, Bolaño, Kafka; fun and games with Emmanuel Carrère; there is even a joke, hidden in the index.... manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/978152617777.... @manchesterup.bsky.social
- “… explodes all academic frames and expectations.” Emmanuel Carrère on my book on play & seriousness, out soon with @manchesterup.bsky.social @mlhouston.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177766/
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- Arriving soon… 17th June. Very pleased to share that my book about play and seriousness is about to become real. @manchesterup.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177766/
- “Constantly personal and unpredictable, this book explodes all academic frames and expectations.” Emmanuel Carrère on my book on play & seriousness. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177766/ @manchesterup.bsky.social
- “Critical games marries deep seriousness with a playfulness whose vivacity sometimes borders on perversity - and I know what I am talking about.” Emmanuel Carrère manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177773/ @manchesterup.bsky.social
- “Critical games marries deep seriousness with a playfulness whose vivacity sometimes borders on perversity - and I know what I am talking about.” Emmanuel Carrère manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177773/
