Paul Bowman

'The Sublime Object of Orientalism' is also on Amazon, and the free sample is quite hefty

www.amazon.co.uk/Sublime-Obje...

Published today - my newest book: The Sublime Object of Orientalism: Asian Physical Culture in the West. Out now from Hong Kong University Press. (Also distributed by Chicago University Press in the US) hkupress.hku.hk/Sublime_Obje...

Book sent to publisher. 'The East in Western Media: A Critical Introduction'.

Which paras?

I just watched this for the first time ever, start to finish - mesmerising.
www.openculture.com/2026/03/the-...

Basement Jaxx - Lucky Star (feat. Dizzee Rascal) (Official Video) YouTube video by Basement Jaxx

I'm going to start today's lecture with this. In fact, I might start all the lectures with this.
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PaulBowman (@PaulBowman@vivaldi.net) 2 Posts, 13 Following, 1 Follower · Professor of Cultural Studies at Cardiff University

So, I switched my browser to Vivaldi for, you know, privacy and smash the system and whatnot; & it seems I've entered a whole 'nother universe. Is anyone else on vivaldi or mastodon or whatever? It seems big and different and scary. Good scary, but still. I'm here:
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I think the only useful point of the ISA argument is interpellation. The importance of that is its reconciliation of Marxist and psychoanalytic determination of the subject. I definitely wouldn’t use Althusser for anything more than this one argument about the constitution of subject positions.

Smashing to see that the full publisher's page for The Sublime Object of Orientalism is up and working
hkupress.hku.hk/Sublime_Obje...

I've written my first textbook and have a new-found respect for the genre. It's actually quite painful. You have to mention a million things and move on. Quite a gear change from what we normally do, which is notice one single thing and then obsess about it for thousands upon thousands of words.

Goldsmiths’ students’ loss is my gain

The correct (i.e., vague, imprecise and levelled as a broad low-level passive aggressive term of abuse) way, I hope.

When I was growing up in Newcastle, you had few choices: Ted, mod, punk, metaller, or smoothie. It got more refined through the 1980s, with rockabilly, psychobilly, goth, etc. But, for us, smoothies were always simply people who blindly followed mainstream music and shopped in high street shops.

Protocols for responding to ICE presence at Carleton College

Visiting a college in Minnesota. These are posted on every door.

Courtesy of @dominicpettman.bsky.social

It’s also pancake day