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Paul Bowman
@paulbowman.bsky.social
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Professor of Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. Founding Editor of Martial Arts Studies. Author of books on cultural theory, Bruce Lee, Rey Chow, orientalism, film, media & physical culture. Recovering martial arts addict. CV: http://bit.ly/4mrJE1C .. more

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Paul Bowman is a British academic specialising in cultural and media studies. He is a Professor of Cultural Studies and Deputy Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University. .. more

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d
This Is Fascism
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Ironstone @ironstone.bsky.social · 2d
When Adorno (and Horkeimer, too) arrived in the US it is fair to say they were alarmed by the level of propagandisation the American people experienced. This while they had come from Nazi Germany as exiles. Seriously gotten much more for all of us, and we see the spoils. Time to get it.
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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 4d
What a clegg-nut!
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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 4d
I'm old. Just signed a contract to write a textbook. I've written a dozen books before - research monographs. But I've never had the audacity to think I could write about an entire field. But now I have. Check back in 12 months for info on "The East in Western Media: A Critical Introduction".
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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 6d
New article: my response to Peter Katz's connection of karate, self-defence & fascism. In my response, I connect fascism to Donald Trump (quelle surprise!), masculine BS, the film 'Nobody' & 'A History of Violence', among a few other things.
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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 6d
Lecture
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Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media and Culture @cujournmedcul.bsky.social · 6d
📣New open-access article from Dr Galina Miazhevich which introduces the notion of post-Soviet post-feminism (PSPF), highlighting its dimensions and unpicking points of tension and ambivalence 👇
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Russian ‘De/Fault’ Feminism, or the Phenomenon of Post-Soviet Post-Feminism
Russian feminism remains undertheorised and overlooked by international scholarship, partially reflecting the (post-)colonial hierarchies of knowledge production. This article introduces the notion...
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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 7d
I hear the next spin off of Narcos is called Bezos
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Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...
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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 7d
@danhf.bsky.social That is a very sensible decision. It is now, has always been and will forever be a huge wobbling studio set of twee British children’s telly tedium
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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 11d
Holy Shit. Gilead is coming

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Children’s literature professor fired by Texas university over ‘gender’ content
Texas A&M also removes two senior administrators from roles after student’s video sparked Republican pressure
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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 13d
Brilliant stuff from Conor Heffernan @physcstudy.bsky.social on “expertise creep” and platform authority

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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 14d
Trump is a cheap conjuror. His words are the distractions. The media looks where he says to look. Then he pulls fascism out of a hat.
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The week in Trump absurdities: from Turkey’s ‘rigged elections’ to ‘your countries are going to hell’
The president, in five days, has claimed Tylenol causes autism, he was sabotaged at the UN and pronounced his rivals ‘guilty as hell’
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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 14d
And then the man who made up lies about the Mayor of London puts soldiers on evermore city streets in his country
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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 16d
All power has thick walls. All power insulates from reality. Absolute power – absolute loss of reality. - Lindqvist

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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 16d
That would be what we call “Saturday”. Just wait till you work out what a “Sunday” is for.
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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 17d
News just in: Tommy Robinson seen feeding swans to Nigel Farage! Then they wrestled naked on the swans’ carcasses and laughed about tax avoidance and how morality is now a one-way street. Them’s the facts, as I’ve heard them, from reliable sources.
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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 17d
Here's the abstract for a talk I'm giving on 12th November: 'Can the Bodybuilder Speak?'

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Can the Bodybuilder Speak?
Can the Bodybuilder Speak? Research Seminar – School of Journalism, Media and Culture – Cardiff University – 12 Nov 2025 Paul Bowman The ste...
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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 18d
I was asked to make a short video on research methods. Here it is. May Reviewer 2 choke on it.
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Introduction to Approaching Media Research
YouTube video by Paul Bowman
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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 19d
Nuff for-profit network thingies. I've resurrected an old blog.

cultstud.blogspot.com
Cultural Studies
Ideas, Speculations, Drafts, Works in Progress, and stuff like that, by some professor of cultural studies or other
cultstud.blogspot.com
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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 19d
I honestly think that this, most of what is going on in the world, and most of what goes on in and around martial arts and combat sports in general, should be analysed through the lens provided by Klaus Theweleit in his epic 2 volume study, 'Male Fantasies'.
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Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social · 19d
OMG
Newspaper headline saying "Releasing the Epatein files causes autism, claims Trump"
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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 20d
Fantastic stuff! Thanks to @physicalculture.bsky.social
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Lost European Martial Exercises in 1800s Japan?! Staffs, Clubs, & More in the Meiji Era!
YouTube video by Physical Culture Historians
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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 20d
In another demented twist, the very publicly Jewish intellectual Judith Butler is in the Trump regime's gunsights for ... (wait for it)... antisemitism. Yep. McTrumpyism, flooding the zone with evermore madness on the way to instituting Gilead.

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Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson
What is happening to Judith Butler – a Jewish intellectual – in the name of fighting ‘antisemitism’ is outrageous
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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 20d
So.... I've resurrected a very old blog. I've started putting some new stuff up there.
cultstud.blogspot.com
Cultural Studies
Ideas, Speculations, Essays, Work in Progress
cultstud.blogspot.com
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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 20d
Trying to get the attention of everyone in the room with this lecture section... maybe a kitten would have been better...?
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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 20d
Let's pick up this gauntlet: AI is neither the death of the humanities nor the human: it is rather the challenge that forces us to define and explore the 'extra' or 'other' that we think we are, or are about.

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Why A.I. May be the Best Thing that’s Ever Happened to the Humanities
It is understandable to be nervous about the fate of the humanities right now.
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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 21d
From 1994 to '96 I did an MA in cultural studies at Leeds Uni. Now, 30 years later, I am going to be external examiner on that very same MA. Such a bizarre cluster of feelings. I did 3 degrees in Leeds, from 1989 to 2001, but I haven't actually been back to the city since about 2002...!
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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 21d
Why it's time to leave Academia.edu (if it's not already too late)
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Why it’s time to leave Academia.edu
Why I'm deleting my account
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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 21d
Increasingly desperate to quit Meta without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, I am now trying ProfBook, which is for academics. It’s mainly organised by thematic subject groups. Academic friends, join me in the Cultural Studies space. Let’s see if it’s any good. profbook.net/share/sT81s1...
Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies is a Space in ProfBook. Join us to share your tips, tricks and stories with other members.
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Paul Bowman @paulbowman.bsky.social · 22d
So… I’m now an admin on the Cultural Studies space on ProfBook… So far it’s a very small group. Join me! profbook.net/share/sT81s1...
Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies is a Space in ProfBook. Join us to share your tips, tricks and stories with other members.
profbook.net
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