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Hello! I am professor of cultural studies at Cardiff University, and this is my blog. I am actually resurrecting it after many years of neglect because I have decided it is  time to leave supposedly open access but actually profit-making sites like Academia.edu  and I want somewhere to post my first drafts, random ideas, hypotheses and works in progress. I also post on   Substack  as well as places like   ResearchGate . And of course there are links to many of my publications on   my Cardiff University profile page . But a blog is a nice thing to have, I think. If you have just bumbled here by accident and have no idea who I am: I used to write books about things like political theory . Then I wrote about film, media and popular culture . Then I wrote three books about Bruce Lee . I also spent a long time using the work of cultural theorist Rey Chow to inform my thinking on many subjects. After that, I set to work creating the interdisciplin...

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