Josh Bowsher

Sociology Lecturer. Current work on human rights and cybernetic capitalism. Wrote The Informational Logic of Human Rights, ( @EdinburghUP , 2022)

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[Josh Bowsher @joshmbowsher]

So my book seems less compelling to dogs, but don't let that put you off. It provides 'a revelatory new framework' (@samuelmoyn) for thinking about the historical and contemporary relationships between human rights and capitalism. Out in paperback with @EdinburghUP

[Dr. Alessandro Corda @AleGCorda]

🚨 New publication alert 🚨

Thrilled that my new article, “Beyond shields, swords and fatigue: Liberal penality and the right‑wing recasting of human rights”, is now published in @SLS_Journal.
Open access and free to read.

https://t.co/mvrMiDppLl

1/3

[Josh Bowsher @joshmbowsher]

This piece with Jeremy Packer and it's subsequent development in the book 'Prison House of the Circuit' are really interesting reflections on the human as media

[Theory, Culture & Society @TCSjournalSAGE]

From the Archive: Kate Maddalena, 'The Digital Body: Telegraphy as Discourse Network' - considers the use of flag telegraphy during the Civil War as a proto-technical medium preceding wire telegraphy as military communications technology. (2014) https://t.co/HwncqQRopt

[Josh Bowsher @joshmbowsher]

Revising an article and it would be handy if there were any good books and articles that were media histories of the use of human bodies as analogue sensors (e.g of heat, light, electricity and so on). Any recommendations?

[Josh Bowsher @joshmbowsher]

My book is on sale for just £12 on the @EdinburghUP website. If you want a critique of the digitality of human rights politics and its imbrication with capitalism, this is the book for you https://t.co/KaLFjlNqb9

[Peter Mitchell @_bezpilotnik]

Nah this is bollocks, sorry. You should be able - and tbf universities should encourage you to learn - to do both. Specialised languages are a tool which can be used just as readily to empower as to exclude, and plenty of academics would be bad writers in any register

[James Maddison @Madders10]

I always win things in my second season. Bruhhhhhhhh😂😂😂

[Josh Bowsher @joshmbowsher]

@AngelinaFisherD Yes that'd be really nice. Hopefully our paths cross sometime soon

[Josh Bowsher @joshmbowsher]

Can't thank @AngelinaFisherD enough for this thorough and excellent review of my book. Really appreciate the critical reflections and it also closes with such a lovely compliment - about the best thing I think anyone could say about a book

[Josh Bowsher @joshmbowsher]

'A good book is not one that makes its reader nod continuously in agreement, but one that jolts the reader out of comfort, prompting counter-thinking and spurring imaginative contemplation. In this regard, Josh Bowsher’s book delivers in full.' https://t.co/HKjYNimTNE

[Josh Bowsher @joshmbowsher]

Probably just about the best compliment I could imagine for a book, thanks to Angelina Fisher for taking the time to engage with my book and write such a thorough and engaged review.

[Josh Bowsher @joshmbowsher]

'A good book is not one that makes its reader nod continuously in agreement, but one that jolts the reader out of comfort, prompting counter-thinking and spurring imaginative contemplation. In this regard, Josh Bowsher’s book delivers in full.' https://t.co/HKjYNimTNE

[Josh Bowsher @joshmbowsher]

@PhilipProudfoot Ne'er a truer word was spoken

[Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhd]

I am hiring a postdoc! Excellent research support, minimal teaching load, and an overall wonderful set up. The research focus is flexible as long as some part of your practice involves critical making or hands-on research in some form. (1/3)

[21group @21percentgroup]

Nowadays, an academic's main jobs in university are

(i) to complete mandatory training courses,
(ii) to answer emails & attend Teams meetings,
(iii) to generate income that supports the ever growing cadre of senior administrators

[Josh Bowsher @joshmbowsher]

Will be speaking at this on Friday about my recently published article on neoliberal transitional justice in Sierra Leone

[SOAS Politics @SOASpolitics]

Workshop launch of special issue of Humanity, "Not Nuremberg: Histories of Alternative Criminalisation Paradigms, 1945-2021" @SOASPolitics, Friday 29 November 2024, 2-5pm. Co-organised by @philclark79. Programme and registration here: https://t.co/m88LxGdFW7

[Tor Krever @tor_krever]

Very excited to announce that this year's London Review of International Law Annual Lecture will be delivered by Susan Marks.

'Trucanini’s Stare', Thursday 21 November, 6.30pm at LSE (MAR 1.08)

https://t.co/eZCxK6yKkZ

[danmcquillan (@[email protected]) @danmcquillan]

Big tech's desperation to monetise an untrustworthy and basically useless tech is going to end up killing people

[Josh Bowsher @joshmbowsher]

Okay had a blow out, the takes in here are too much. I need to leave

[Josh Bowsher @joshmbowsher]

So gullible it's wild

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

I take (possibly forlorn) hope in the fact that although Trump is a mendacious, malevolent, transparently evil man, and stupid with it, Musk is not. He is highly intelligent and, diametrically opposed to Trump, he has the welfare of the world at heart.
https://t.co/YNAQ8W5KB8

[Josh Bowsher @joshmbowsher]

My favourite part about this policy announcement is the absolute genius level idea is that to improve poor hospitals we should ... *Checks notes* ... Yep. Starve them of resources they need to improve. Soo smart.

[Alex Niven @Alex_Niven]

Market Stalinism is back baby!