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My Retrospective on Wokeness in detail! Blogs are for just saying stuff, after all. So here is my attempt to say what was distinctive (if anything) about a recent era of socio-cultural life, what (if anything) changed, and what (if anything) was to the good

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In recent times my online sphere has had a fair few people make the claim that, in some sense, the culture has moved on from Woke. The d...

Wokeness: a Retrospective

In recent times my online sphere has had a fair few people make the claim that, in some sense, the culture has moved on from Woke. The d...
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Nick Clanchy @nickclanchy.bsky.social

Obvs talk of “le wokisme” is not to be abided (I live in Québec, so this is personal), but there’s still an interesting question as to why it’s gained such a substantial foothold in France - @adriandaub.bsky.social is good on this in his book on the cancel culture panic

A passage from Adrian Daub’s The Cancel Culture Panic (2024) listing a long list of books published in French in the last three years decrying “le wokisme”. Daub suggests that key to explaining this trend is that “French public discourse has long been preoccupied with the idea that the unifying power of French culture was slackening, that particularism was rupturing the social fabric.”

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    Ashoka Mukpo @shokes.bsky.social

    It makes sense theyd be hyper reactive to a changing view of history as it’s shaped the present, their closet has a large pile of bones in it

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