Alterdisciplinarity

Published in 'Culture, Theory and Critique', 2008.

Between Responsibility and Irresponsibility: Cultural Studies and the Price of Fish

Published in Strategies, 2002

Zizek's Interrogating the Real

Book Review, published in 'Culture Machine', 2006

Enter the Zizekian: Bruce Lee, Ideology and the Problem of Knowledge

Published in 'Entertext', 2006.

The Task of the Transgressor

Published in 'Culture Machine', 2004

Politics and Ethics from Behind

Published in 'Culture Machine', 2002.

Alarming and Calming, Sacred and Accursed: The Proper Impropriety of Cultural Studies

Published in 'Cultural Studies: Interdisciplinarity and Translation' (2002)

Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe and Post-Marxism

First published in The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of Modern Criticism and Theory (2002)

McDeconstruction

Draft. Became a chapter in 'Deconstructing Popular Culture' (Palgrave 2008)

Deconstruction is a Martial Art

Written for the book: Enduring Resistance: Cultural Theory after Derrida  / La Résistance persévère: la théorie de la culture (d’)après Derrida (Langages / langues : English and French), Rodopi 2009

Aberrant Pedagogies: JR, QT and Bruce Lee

This is a first draft. It is intended for submission to a special issue of 'Borderlands' on Ranciere and Queer Theory.

This is a first draft. It is intended for submission to a special issue of 'Borderlands' on Ranciere and Queer Theory.

Enter The Zizekian: Bruce Lee, Cultural Studies, and the Problem of Knowledge

Published in "EnterText", 2006

Marxism(s) and Postmarxism(s), 2001

Published in 'The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory', OUP, 2002.

Marxism(s) and Postmarxism(s), 2002

Published in 'The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory', OUP, 2003

Marxism(s) and Postmarxism(s), 2003

Published in 'The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory', 2004

The Other Cultural Revolution: Kung Fu and the Transformation of Global Popular Culture

Published in SL Magazine, 2009

This is just a magazine article.

Interrogating Cultural Studies

Editor's Introduction to INTERROGATING CULTURAL STUDIES (London: Pluto, 2003)

INTERROGATING CULTURAL STUDIES

Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction: Interrogating Cultural Studies

Section One: From Cultural Studies
Catherine Belsey: From Cultural Studies to Cultural Criticism?
Mieke Bal: From Cultural Studies to Cultural Analysis: ‘a controlled reflection on the formation of method’
Martin McQuillan: The Projection of Cultural Studies

Section Two: Cultural Studies (&) Philosophy
Simon Critchley: Why I Love Cultural Studies
Chris Norris: Two Cheers for Cultural Studies: A Philosopher’s View

Section Three: For Cultural Studies
Adrian Rifkin: Inventing Recollection
Griselda Pollock: Becoming Cultural Studies: the Daydream of the Political

Section Four: What Cultural Studies
Jeremy Gilbert: Friends and Enemies: Which Side is Cultural Studies On?
Julian Wolfreys: …as if such a thing existed…

Section Five: Positioning Cultural Studies
John Mowitt: Cultural Studies, in Theory
Jeremy Valentine: The Subject Position of Cultural Studies: Is There A Problem?
Steven Connor: What Can Cultural Studies Do?

Section Six: Against Cultural Studies
Thomas Docherty: responses
Lynette Hunter: unruly fugues

Index

Preface: Post-Marxism Versus Cultural Studies: Preface

'Preface', POST-MARXISM VERSUS CULTURAL STUDIES (Edinburgh University Press, 2007)

Deconstructing "the Popular"

A sample chapter from DECONSTRUCTING POPULAR CULTURE (Palgrave, 2008)

“Deconstructing Popular Culture is an accessible, funny and stimulating introduction to popular culture. This is a book with both a passionate argument and a rare skill in making the ‘fine print’ of complex theoretical arguments accessible.”

- Richard Stamp, Senior Lecturer of Media and Cultural Studies, Bath Spa University


“Bowman writes very much as though he is speaking directly to a group of undergraduates: it engages them where they live. This book is an extraordinarily significant achievement.” –

-John Mowitt, Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Minnesota


Popular culture permeates every aspect of our lives: from the music we listen to, the films and television shows we watch and the books we read.  But who decides what counts as popular culture? Why is it so important? And how do we go about studying it?

This book provides a unique introduction to popular culture. Unpicking and analysing recognisable examples from contemporary music, Hollywood film and the self-help movement, Paul Bowman uses techniques of deconstruction that encourage readers to form their own interpretations of the culture they experience every day. Introducing complex ideas effortlessly, the book shows how to avoid common pitfalls in studying theory, questions claims behind the importance of popular culture and looks at the problems and possibilities of studying this fast-changing field. With an innovative user guide and glossary to explain essential terms and ideas, this book makes difficult concepts relevant, accessible and interesting.

This witty, thought-provoking and insightful book provides a unique approach and a clear introduction to popular culture for all students of cultural studies, media studies and sociology.

(The publisher has put a sample chapter of the book here: http://www.palgrave.com/PDFs/0230545351.Pdf )

Interview with Simon Critchley

Published in INTERROGATING CULTURAL STUDIES (2003)

Interview with Chris Norris

Published in INTERROGATING CULTURAL STUDIES (2003)

Interview with Ernesto Laclau

Deconstructing Pragmatism

published in parallax (1998)

God's Gym

Published in parallax (1997)

This Disagreement is not one: Laclau, Ranciere, Arditi

Published in Social Semiotics (2007)

The Globalization of Martial Arts

Published in 'Martial Arts in the Modern World, 2nd Edition', 2010.

Cultural Studies and Slavoj Žižek

First published in 'New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory' (Edinburgh UP, 2006)

This work explores the fraught relationship between Slavoj Žižek and cultural studies. It argues that although there is a growing and increasingly distinct disavowal of cultural studies in Žižek’s work, an examination of the reasons for, and the form and content of this disavowal actually amounts to something of a ‘royal road’ for understanding Žižek’s intellectual and political project. In short, it argues that in Žižek’s critique of cultural studies is the key to understanding his entire oeuvre. This is because Žižek construes cultural studies as an exemplary site of intellectual, political and ideological struggle: on the one hand, he argues, the insights of its ‘postmodernist deconstructionism’ challenge the ‘naïve cognitivism’ that is the dominant form of knowledge today; but, on the other hand, its trite multiculturalism and easy relativism amount to intellectual and political derelictions of responsibility. Against this, Žižek argues for a ‘politics of truth’ that remains focused on the power and effects of the capitalist economy. However, this paper argues, despite the importance of Žižek’s critique, his polemical zeal leads both his political and his intellectual project into a series of cul-de-sacs. It argues that in order to move his projects forward, Žižek must now reorient his stance vis-à-vis cultural studies, by more adequately acknowledging the importance of the Gramscian post-Marxist premise of cultural studies – that of the political propensities of the (university) institution – rather than living in the repetition of merely denouncing cultural studies as ‘ideological’. The paper argues that Žižek’s critique of cultural studies is indeed potentially greater than the sum of its parts, in that it casts important light on issues of culture, politics and ideology, and showing that cultural studies is in fact ambivalently central to his entire project; but it concludes that cultural studies’ institutional focus reciprocally problematizes – and points to the way forward for – Žižek’s intellectual and political paradigm.

The Tao of Zizek

First published in 'The Truth of Zizek' (Continuum, 2007)

The Margins of Philosophy; the Foundations of Cultural Studies

Review of Oliver Marchart, post-Foundational Political Thought

Interview with Griselda Pollock

Published in Interrogating Cultural Studies (2003)

Interview with Catherine Belsey: From Cultural Studies to Cultural Criticism?

Published in 'Interrogating Cultural Studies' (2003)

Interview with Mieke Bal: From Cultural Studies to Cultural Analysis

Published in 'Interrogating Cultural Studies' (2003)

Interview with Jeremy Gilbert: Which Side is Cultural Studies On?

Published in 'Interrogating Cultural Studies' (2003)

Interview with Thomas Docherty

First published in Interrogating Cultural Studies (2003)

The Fantasy Corpus of Martial Arts

First published in EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE: TRADITIONAL ASIAN MARTIAL ARTS IN A TRANSNATIONAL WORLD (SUNY, 2010)

Sick Man of Asia Crosses The River: Bruce Lee and Queer Cultural Translation

First Draft of a Chapter for a book on Queer Europe

Aberrant Pedagogies: JR, QT and Bruce Lee

Published in Borderlands 8:2, 2009

This article proposes that central to queer studies (and ‘radical,’ ‘politicized’ scholarship more widely) is a critique focused on the cultural power of institutions – pedagogical institutions in particular. It relates Jacques Rancière’s critique of such institutions to this wider ‘radical political’ impulse, and relates this impulse itself to 1960s counterculture. It asks why Rancière’s critique stops before his own historical moment, a moment that can be tied to the 1960s; and it attempts to establish the discursive status of Rancièrean and radical approaches such as queer theory by picking up where Rancière leaves off: the countercultural critique of pedagogical institutions, which spread through many realms of society, including martial arts. The key figure here is the anti-institutional and countercultural Bruce Lee. So, the article explores Bruce Lee’s iconoclastic, inter- and antidisciplinary approach to ‘learning’ in relation to Rancière’s queer pedagogy in order to deepen our thinking about an ‘emancipatory relation.’