Paul Bowman
@paulbowman.bsky.social
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
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A stunning response (i.e., more than just a review) of GHOSTING, by Tyran Grillo. If you don't have the time or inclination to read the book, this serves as an excellent bluffer's guide to something we all deal with, at some point.
Dominic Pettman: Ghosting (Book Review)
Ghosting: On Disappearance is a treatise of nonbeing—or, perhaps more precisely, of unbeing. It is not merely about disappearance but about the existential tremors that ripple outwar…
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November 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
A stunning response (i.e., more than just a review) of GHOSTING, by Tyran Grillo. If you don't have the time or inclination to read the book, this serves as an excellent bluffer's guide to something we all deal with, at some point.
Actual footage of the first figure Trump came up with when his henchmen floated the idea of suing the BBC.
a bald man is holding a ring in his hand and saying `` one million dollars ... '' .
ALT: a bald man is holding a ring in his hand and saying `` one million dollars ... '' .
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November 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Actual footage of the first figure Trump came up with when his henchmen floated the idea of suing the BBC.
This month marks the 10th anniversary of the first issue of the open access Cardiff University Press journal that I co-founded, *Martial Arts Studies*: www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/29...
Martial Arts Studies journal turns 10
The academic journal, which is published by Cardiff University Press, celebrated the special milestone on 6 November 2025.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
This month marks the 10th anniversary of the first issue of the open access Cardiff University Press journal that I co-founded, *Martial Arts Studies*: www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/29...
I agree with 'Baudrillard as prophet'. I use 1980s Baudrillard to help my 2020s students understand today's world/media dynamics. (However, I'd also add that the comedy novelist Douglas Adams predicted more, and sooner, and in ways that were a lot funnier)
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How the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard predicted today’s AI 30 years before ChatGPT
Baudrillard’s genius lay in foreseeing what these rudimentary devices like fax machines suggested about likely future uses of technology.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
I agree with 'Baudrillard as prophet'. I use 1980s Baudrillard to help my 2020s students understand today's world/media dynamics. (However, I'd also add that the comedy novelist Douglas Adams predicted more, and sooner, and in ways that were a lot funnier)
theconversation.com/how-the-fren...
theconversation.com/how-the-fren...
Composing my presentation for a research seminar next week. This one is my favourite slide so far.
November 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Composing my presentation for a research seminar next week. This one is my favourite slide so far.
Next week I'm doing a talk called 'Can the Bodybuilder Speak?', which will be about this kind of thing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgWZ...
Better Health with White Goodman of Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story | 20th Century FOX
YouTube video by 20th Century Studios
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November 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Next week I'm doing a talk called 'Can the Bodybuilder Speak?', which will be about this kind of thing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgWZ...
"Oh the Grand old Duke of York
He paid 12 million quid
To somebody he never met
For things he never did."
- my wife, 31/10/25
He paid 12 million quid
To somebody he never met
For things he never did."
- my wife, 31/10/25
October 31, 2025 at 9:32 AM
"Oh the Grand old Duke of York
He paid 12 million quid
To somebody he never met
For things he never did."
- my wife, 31/10/25
He paid 12 million quid
To somebody he never met
For things he never did."
- my wife, 31/10/25
Polemical? Moi? "bodybuilding is the clearest, best and unsurpassable example of 'affect' – of what it is, how it works, and what it does".
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Intensities: Mike Mentzer, Tom Platz, and effective/affective training
Intensity is the measurement of affect; it is the body’s vibratory motion and resonation before it becomes a conscious emotion or feeling – Brian Massumi
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October 29, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Polemical? Moi? "bodybuilding is the clearest, best and unsurpassable example of 'affect' – of what it is, how it works, and what it does".
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“Between 2019 and 2024, Reform received more than 90% of its funding, £2.3 million, from individuals and companies linked to polluting industries and climate science denial”
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New research reveals the best attack lines to use against Reform
How to stop Farage...
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October 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“Between 2019 and 2024, Reform received more than 90% of its funding, £2.3 million, from individuals and companies linked to polluting industries and climate science denial”
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Yukio Mishima's Embodied Aesthetics. Or: Are all Bodybuilders and Martial Artists Closet Fascists?
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Yukio Mishima’s Embodied Aesthetics
Or: are all bodybuilders and martial artists closet fascists?
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October 28, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Yukio Mishima's Embodied Aesthetics. Or: Are all Bodybuilders and Martial Artists Closet Fascists?
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Well done, Starmer. Disgraceful
October 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Well done, Starmer. Disgraceful