Paul Bowman (@paulbowman) Bsky

Somaesthetics as Style The differences between martial arts

Somaesthetics as style. Feeling the differences between martial arts
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Somacoloniality: Three Figures of Embodied Postcolonial Affect (Indian Clubs, Gadas, and Heavy Clubs) This work engages the embodied and affective afterlives of three forms of British Imperial era ‘Indian Clubs’. Indian clubs are a broad family of exercise tools: some are of ancient Indian and Pers...

My article, “Somacoloniality”, is finally out. For some reason, I’ve been looking forward to this being published. It’s FREE to access, read, download, share. I think it’s good.
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My 'Exercising Corpo-Realities' panel stream proposal has been accepted for the 2026 Affect Studies Conference! Now let's fill the stream with excellent papers

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Soldiers are limbs connected to weapons and disconnected from brain and imagination. Foremen are eyes disconnected from heart. ... The industrial enterprise, where everything is coded as money, is the whole body upon which these part-organs are attached.

Alphonso Lingis

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Still trying to work out how people can ever manage to listen to podcasts. Hang on though... *Do* people actually listen to podcasts? Or is it just that people set up podcasts and invite people onto podcasts and record them and then everyone just shares links to them? This is my suspicion.

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Wit, unker, git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy Tales of love and adventure from 1,000 years ago reveal a dazzling range of now-extinct English pronouns. They capture something unique about how people once thought about "two-ness".

The plural of “you” is still “youse” in Newcastle. And I often think fondly of the time I was temping in a warehouse in deepest darkest Leeds, wearing my Leeds University Taekwondo Club hoodie, when my coworker said to me, “Dost thou do taaaakwondo then, thee?”

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I’ll share a video of the time me, Bruce Lee and Muhammad Ali had a pose down

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The Tai Chi scam & how we can profit from its tricks YouTube video by Smoke & Speculation

Explanation of the Obviously AI 'Do Tai Chi for a Six Pack' Ads (Next, I want to know what is driving the current diarrhoea attack of Obviously AI "when Bruce Lee met Muhammad Ali" rubbish that is doing the rounds)

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The Pull-Up Is Not a Moral Test (Even If We Treat It Like One) I was quoted in Men’s Health this month (Link here) about pull-ups, which is a strange outcome for something that, in mechanical terms, is stupidly simple.

Brilliant stuff by Conor Heffernan - a super concise illustration of why studying physical culture is so interesting and important
physicalculture.substack.com/p/the-pull-u...

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This one

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I have a family member, same age as Trump, with advanced dementia. Trump on the phone to the Orban rally sounded exactly like them.

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Imagine if America had just sent him to prison for the rapes he is guilty of, instead of re-electing him as president. Things might have been slightly better now.

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40 minutes out of contact is nowt. I have an 02 contract and often use GWR WiFi. I spend most of my life with essentially no viable signal

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This is EXACTLY how I would engage an assailant with a knife

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These books are high comedy. I have many. I love them.

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