PinnedPaul BowmanIdeology and PracticeThis is another long-form piece that will be published in sections for ease of reading and writing both. I have already trailed some of…5 min read·Jan 18, 2020----
Paul BowmanThe continuing appeal of the deficit modelIn 2016 the journal Public Understanding of Science¹ published six pieces chosen as the winners of an essay competition to answer the…37 min read·Apr 5, 2024----
Paul BowmanTowards a Narratological Approach to Ideology AnalysisThe dominant model in contemporary ideology studies is Michael Freeden’s concept-centred “morphological” model. Subsequent scholars like…21 min read·Oct 26, 2023----
Paul BowmanNotes on counter-extremismThe following are some notes I originally made in response to an interview by the hosts of Decoding the Gurus podcast with Julia Ebner, a…4 min read·Oct 8, 2023----
Paul BowmanThe ideological classes and the lumpenproletariatMarx left us with a puzzle concerning what he thought about class. On the one hand he opens the Communist Manifesto with the line “The…37 min read·Feb 21, 2023----
Paul BowmanThe proletariat as structured productIn the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis certain terms of art that had been restricted to the niche world of financial engineering…5 min read·Jan 15, 2023----
Paul BowmanRegimen, Hegemony, AutonomyGramsci framed the relation between ideology and class forces at the level of state and civil society through the concept of hegemony. Like…19 min read·Jan 15, 2023----
Paul BowmanFrom the Fall of Saigon to the Fall of LehmanChapter from AK Press “The End of the World as We Know It?”25 min read·Jan 9, 2023----