Paul Bowman is lecturer in cultural studies at Cardiff University. He researches, writes and teaches about cultural studies, popular culture, cultural theory, cultural politics, ‘The Orient’ in Western Culture, and martial arts. He is author of Deconstructing Popular Culture (Palgrave, 2008), Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies: Theory, Politics and Intervention (Edinburgh University Press, 2007) and Theorizing Bruce Lee (Rodopi, 2009, forthcoming).
He is editor of a book of interviews entitled Interrogating Cultural Studies: Theory, Politics and Practice (Pluto Press, 2003) and co-editor of a major study of the work of Slavoj Žižek, entitled The Truth of Žižek (Continuum, 2007). He is currently writing a book entitled After Bruce Lee: Chasing the Dragon through Film, Philosophy and Popular Culture for Wallflower Press and another entitled Popular Culture, for Sage. He is also the co-editor of Jacques Ranciere: In Disagreement, a special issue of parallax, and co-editor of Reading Ranciere (Continuum).
In addition, Paul is editor of The Rey Chow Reader (Columbia University Press) and editor of a double issue of Social Semiotics on the work of Rey Chow.
Paul is on the Editorial Board of the journal Culture Machine and has also been an Editor of the journal Parallax as well as a Reviewer for The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory.
He has published in the journals: Borderlands; Body & Society; Contemporary Politics; Contemporary Political Theory; Culture, Theory and Critique; EnterText; Parallax; The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory; Social Semiotics; Strategies; and has contributed chapters to such books as: The Truth of Žižek (2007); New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory (2007); Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory: A Critical Guide (2006); and Cultural Studies, Interdisciplinarity and Translation (2002).
Publications
EDITED BOOKS
JOURNAL ARTICLES
1. (2007) Enter the Zizekian: Bruce Lee, Martial Arts, and the Problem of Knowledge, Entertext.
2. (2005) Marxism(s) and Postmarxism(s), The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (Oxford University Press), ed. Martin McQuillan, 13.
3. (2004) The Task of the Transgressor, Culture Machine 6: 'Deconstruction is/in Cultural Studies', ed. D. Boothroyd et al., 6.
4. (2004) Marxism(s) and Postmarxism(s), The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (Oxford University Press), ed. Martin McQuillan, 12.
5. (2003) Promiscuous Fidelity to Revolution, or, revaluing ‘revolutionary’ left intellectualism, Contemporary Politics: New Agendas and Global Debates, 9:1 (March), 33–44.
6. (2003) Who Moved My Worth? Management Self-Help Books And You!, Signs of the Times, http://www.signsofthetimes.org.uk.
7. (2003) Marxism(s) and Post-Marxism(s), The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (Oxford University Press), 11, 17-42.
8. (2002) Politics and Ethics From Behind, Culture Machine, http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk, 4.
9. (2001) Between Responsibility and Irresponsibility: Cultural Studies and the price of fish, Strategies: Journal of Theory, Culture & Politics, 14:2 (Nov), 277-293.
10. (2001) Proper Impropriety: The Proper-Ties of Cultural Studies, Parallax (journal), 19:7:2 (April-June), 50–65.
11. (2000) In Citing Violence, Parallax (journal) 15, (April-June).
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
2. (2007) “Is this not precisely…” The Truth of Žižek, The Truth of Žižek, Continuum, eds. P. Bowman and R. Stamp.
3. (2007) Deconstruction Reading Cultural Studies, Emergencies, Routledge, ed. M. McQuillan.
4. (2006) Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe and Post-Marxism, Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory, Edinburgh University Press, ed. J. Wolfreys.
5. (2006) Cultural Studies and Slavoj Žižek, New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory, Edinburgh University Press, eds. C. Burchall and G. Hall.
6. (2003) Interrogating Cultural Studies, Interrogating Cultural Studies: Theory, Politics and Practice, ed. P. Bowman, London: Pluto, 1–18.
7. (2002) “Alarming and calming. Sacred and Accursed”: The Proper Impropriety of Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinarity, ed. S. Herbrechter, Rodopi, 55–72.
8. (2002) Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, and Post-Marxism, The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of Modern Criticism and Theory, J. Wolfreys, ed., Edinburgh University Press, 799–808.
9. (1999) Umberto Eco, E. Cashmore and C. Rojek, A Dictionary of Cultural Theorists
10. (1999) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, E. Cashmore and C. Rojek, A Dictionary of Cultural Theorists (Routledge). (Routledge).
EDITED JOURNALS
1. (2000) Parallax 15, In Violence (April),
Contributors include: Slavoj Žižek, Stanley Aronowitz, Lynette Hunter,
John Mowitt, Alan Sondheim, Simon O’Sullivan, and others.
2. (1999) Parallax 11, Polemics: Against Cultural Studies
(April), Contributors include: Lola Young, Steven Connor, David
Trotter, Thomas Docherty, George Myerson, Ernesto Laclau, Lynette
Hunter, and others
3. (1999) Parallax 10, Practices of Procrastination
(January), Contributors include: Zygmunt Bauman, Robert J. C. Young,
Richard Beardsworth, Mike Gane, Allan Stoekl, Thomas A. Carlson,
Stephen D. Moore, Catherine Belsey, Gregory L. Ulmer, Bracha
Lichtenberg-Ettinger, Adrian Rifkin, and others.
Commissioning Editor
1. (2001) The New International, ed., M. McQuillan, Parallax 20 (Sept).
2. (2000) Translators Ink, eds., J. Morra and M. Smith, Parallax 14 (January).
3. (1999) On Honour, ed., Sue Golding, Parallax 13 (October).
4. (1999) Passagen 2000, eds., Mieke Bal and D. Vanderburgh, Parallax 12 (July).
Assistant Editor
1. (1998) Neo-Pragmatism & New Romanticisms, eds., O. Cruz and R. Guins, Parallax 9 (Oct)
2. (1998) Julia Kristeva 1966-96, ed., G. Pollock, Parallax 8 (July).
3. (1998) Translating ‘Algeria’, eds., J. Morra and M. Smith, Parallax 7 (April)
4. (1998) From Tel Quel to L’infini, ed., P. ffrench, Parallax 6 (January)
5. (1997) Work/Space, eds., S. Ellis and C. Greenblatt, Parallax 5 (September).
INTERVIEWS IN BOOKS: in Interrogating Cultural Studies
1. (2003) “From Cultural Studies to Cultural Criticism”, An Interview with Catherine Belsey, in Paul Bowman, ed., Interrogating Cultural Studies: Theory, Politics and Practice (London: Pluto, 2003), ISBN: 0-7453-1714.
2. (2003) “From Cultural Studies to Cultural Analysis”, An Interview with Mieke Bal.
3. (2003) “The Projection of Cultural Studies”, An Interview with Martin McQuillan.
4. (2003) “Why I Love Cultural Studies”, An Interview with Simon Critchley.
5. (2003) “Two Cheers For Cultural Studies”, An Interview with Chris Norris.
6. (2003) “Inventing Recollection”, An Interview with Adrian Rifkin.
7. (2003) “Becoming Cultural Studies”, An Interview with Griselda Pollock.
8. (2003) “Friends and Enemies: Which Side Is Cultural Studies On?”, An Interview with Jeremy Gilbert.
9. (2003) “…as if such a thing existed…”, An Interview with Julian Wolfreys.
10. (2003) “Cultural Studies, In Theory”2, An Interview with John Mowitt.
11. (2003) “The Subject Position of Cultural Studies: Is There A Problem? ”, An Interview with Jeremy Valentine.
12. (2003) “What Can Cultural Studies Do?”, An Interview with Steven Connor.
13. (2003) “Responses”, An Interview with Thomas Docherty.
14. (2003) “Unruly Fugues”, An Interview with Lynette Hunter.
INTERVIEWS IN JOURNALS
1. (2000) “Perhaps Even Violently – Via The Jolts of Fashion”, An Interview with John Mowitt, Parallax 15, April 2000;
2. (1999) “Politics, Polemics, and Academics: An Interview with Ernesto Laclau”, Parallax 11, April 1999.0
BOOK REVIEWS
1. (2006) Slavoj Žižek's Interrogating the Real, Culture Machine
2. (2003) “Power is Packaged for the People”, Times Higher Educational Supplement, 24th Oct.
3. (2003) Gary Hall’s Culture In Bits: The Monstrous Future of Theory, Culture Machine, http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk.
4. (2003) John Mowitt’s Percussion: Drumming, Beating, Striking, Culture Machine, http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk.
5. (2001) Contingency, Hegemony, Universality, Culture Machine, http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk.
6. (2000) ‘Rethinking The University’, Culture Machine.
7. (1998) ‘Deconstructing Pragmatism: A War of Position’, Parallax 9, October-December.
8. (1998) ‘God’s Gym: Divine Male Bodies of the Bible’, Parallax 6, January-April.
Conferences & Lectures
INVITED SPEAKER, RESEARCH SEMINARS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS
Invited Speaker
(2006) 'Deconstruction is a Martial Art', Reading University, research seminar, invited speaker, 29th November.
(2006) 'McDeconstruction; or: (trans)mission impossible', invited
round-table speaker ('Close Encounter'), International Association of
Philosophy and Literature annual Conference, Freiberg, Germany, June.
(2006) 'I'm Luke, I'm five and my dad's Bruce Lee', London Metropolitan University, research seminar, invited speaker, February.
(2005) 'Cultural Studies Facing Martial Arts', University of Brighton research seminar, invited speaker, October 22nd.
Conference Papers
(2007) 'Alter-Disciplinarity', Amsterdam Centre for Cultural Analysis, 27-30 March, Amsterdam.
(2006) 'Fists of Fusion: Bruce Lee and Jacques Derrida versus
Martin Heidegger and Slavoj Zizek', Fusion Cultures: Memory, Migration,
[Re]mediation, Mobility, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College,
9th December.
(2006) 'Deconstruction is a Martial Art', Counter-Movements: Institutions of Difference, University of Portsmouth, July.
(2005) '"The Point and the Instant" 2(at the moment) Jacques
Derrida meets Bruce Lee', The Ethics and Politics of Indexicality and
Virtuality, CentreCATH, University of Leeds, Bradford, July.
(2005) '"confused", "good-for-everything" "hate object": Of
deconstruction, cultural studies, and academic irresponsibility',
Derrida: Negotiating the Legacy, University of Wales, Aberystwyth,
January.
(2004) 'Enter the Derridean: Bruce Lee, Jacques Derrida and the
Problem of Cultural Studies', Media and Cultural Studies Research
Seminar Series, Roehampton University, December.
(2004) 'Enter the Derridean: The Martial Architecture of Taoism as
Contemporary Cultural Theory', The Architecture of Philosophy/The
Philosophy of Architecture, CentreCATH, University of Leeds, Bradford,
July.
(2004) 'Writing to Reach You', at The Senses, Thames Valley University, February 6th.
(2003) 'Writing to Reach You', Warp/Woof: Aurality, Musicality, Textuality, CentreCATH, University of Leeds, July.
(2002) 'Classachresis', Universal(ising) Class, at Translating
Class/Altering Hospitality, CentreCATH, University of Leeds, June.
(2002) 'Mourning Revaluation', Political Studies Association International Conference, University of Aberdeen, April.
(2001) 'Behind and Between Politics and Ethics: Sex and
Masturbation in Political Theory', Between Politics and Ethics, Bath
Spa University College, July.
(2001) 'Between Responsibility and Irresponsibility: Cultural
Studies and the Price of Fish', Graduate Symposium, University of
Leeds, December.
(2000) ''Violence and Metaphysics' and Post-Marxist Tensions', Graduate Symposium, University of Leeds, December.
(1999) 'Deconstruction Reading Cultural Studies', Deconstruction Reading Politics, Staffordshire University, June.
(1998) 'The Problem With Cultural Studies', Graduate Symposium, University of Leeds, April.
(1998) 'post-media, post-academia', Politics, Rhetoric and the Media, University of Leeds, January.