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Ben Bowsher
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Political Theorist and Researcher. Always overthinker. Sometimes designer. Now the useless kind of doctor.

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Posting my article again in hopes of finding you! Dear reader who is interested in posthuman theories and radical politics!

If this isn’t ‘you’, please share until I find the right ‘you’.

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The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene: Rancière and the politics of posthuman knowledge - Ben Bowsher, 2026
This paper responds to debates over the politics of knowledge in the Anthropocene, which often centres on affirmational and negative approaches to posthuman the...
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February 13, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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Fletcher, R., (2026) “Planetary Political Ecology”, Journal of Political Ecology 33(1): 10137. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe....

scaled up PE

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Planetary Political Ecology
A growing body of literature has recently adopted and advanced a newfound planetary perspective to explore its implications for understanding and influencing environmental and developmental politics a...
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February 13, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Posting my article again in hopes of finding you! Dear reader who is interested in posthuman theories and radical politics!

If this isn’t ‘you’, please share until I find the right ‘you’.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene: Rancière and the politics of posthuman knowledge - Ben Bowsher, 2026
This paper responds to debates over the politics of knowledge in the Anthropocene, which often centres on affirmational and negative approaches to posthuman the...
journals.sagepub.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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The High Court has ruled that the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was unlawful - a vindication for all those who have put themselves on the line to oppose Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the British states complicity in it
February 13, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Who doesn’t appreciate a good print-finish!!
February 12, 2026 at 8:52 PM
You should fill out this government consultation on changes to migration policy. If you find anything confusing (which the questionnaire seems to be designed to be), the amnesty international guide linked in the tweet below is a helpful guide for answers that help protect migrants and refugees.
anyway the consultation shuts tomorrow, one minute to midnight UK time: www.gov.uk/government/c... Amnesty have some good guidance here. Go on: media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Am...
media.amnesty.org.uk
February 11, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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Genuinely, if you live in the UK you should so the consultation just to find out some of the unbelievable details of what's being proposed. Even with their spin and obfuscation it's shocking
the whole thing is of course completely revolting. 20 YEARS to settlement for refugees? no settlement if you’ve ever had a criminal conviction or a tax debt? 10 YEARS added if you’ve ever received benefits? partners and children on their own routes to settlement? What are you even TALKING about
February 11, 2026 at 8:51 AM
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for those committed theory heads, spend yr Saturday reading my first ever journal article. Its open access over at Progress in Human Geography:

The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene: Rancière and the politics of posthuman knowledge

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

And tell yer friends
The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene: Rancière and the politics of posthuman knowledge - Ben Bowsher, 2026
This paper responds to debates over the politics of knowledge in the Anthropocene, which often centres on affirmational and negative approaches to posthuman the...
journals.sagepub.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.
New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project
A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare
goodlaw.social
February 7, 2026 at 9:09 AM
for those committed theory heads, spend yr Saturday reading my first ever journal article. Its open access over at Progress in Human Geography:

The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene: Rancière and the politics of posthuman knowledge

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

And tell yer friends
The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene: Rancière and the politics of posthuman knowledge - Ben Bowsher, 2026
This paper responds to debates over the politics of knowledge in the Anthropocene, which often centres on affirmational and negative approaches to posthuman the...
journals.sagepub.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:21 AM
An interesting way of admitting what ai really is: it’s not democratisation of skills, but deskilling, designed to ensure the material basis for creating and developing skills continually shrinks and recedes, so that capitalists don’t have to pay for or deal with the unruly agency of skilled workers
"Talent is a gatekeeping mechanism" is a hell of a quote.
February 6, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Can’t believe you’re just prepared to put your name to credulous ‘reporting’ like this.
February 6, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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in case anyone missed it, my first article is out now in Progress in Human Geography:

The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene: Rancière and the politics of posthuman knowledge

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

FFO: posthumanism, postfoundational politics, Anthropocene

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February 4, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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I recently published my first article: The Poetics of Knowledge in the Anthropocene: The Politics of Posthuman Knowledge.

If you are interested in posthumanism, environmental crisis, radical politics or post-foundational theory, this might be of interest!

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February 2, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Looks like the end of one regime of foul, far right buffoons and the beginning of the countdown for the next regime of foul, far right buffoons.
February 6, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Ludwig Von Mises is definitely one of history’s true bastards, but I’m still gobsmacked reading his theory of why fascism is acceptable and Marxism is bad (tldr; Marxists are of the bad sort of race)

From The Choice of Civil War, 2026
February 5, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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The Struggles Of Elon Musk 😔
February 5, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Thanks for the kind words Eva!!
February 5, 2026 at 10:48 AM
One hundo
February 5, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Yeah I think it was always prone to a bit of posturing, probably because it was designed to get people to seek attention and to develop themselves as brands. But it really has ratcheted up the intensity. Or perhaps I’m just less accustomed to it now.
February 5, 2026 at 9:25 AM
It seems to have become structurally capable of inciting everyone to see each other as an enemy.
February 5, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Briefly visited the hellsite to post my article (I know, I know) and the intense affective negativity in that space feels noticeable when you have been away a while.

(This isn’t to dismiss negative affects out of hand, of course, but concern for the way they’re incited and mobilised over there)
February 5, 2026 at 9:14 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Huge victory for left activists in the UK. One of the reasons political elites hate jury trials is because, just occasionally, they deliver a justice that transcends its merely legal delimitation
Palestine Action protesters not guilty of defence firm burglary
The group are cleared of aggravated burglary over the alleged raid at an Elbit Systems warehouse.
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February 4, 2026 at 1:00 PM
in case anyone missed it, my first article is out now in Progress in Human Geography:

The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene: Rancière and the politics of posthuman knowledge

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

FFO: posthumanism, postfoundational politics, Anthropocene

Please share!
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February 4, 2026 at 8:56 AM
Thanks Jon!
February 3, 2026 at 8:23 PM