Desire and Fate

Woke #38

4 Theses on Woke.

1. Woke has done lasting harm to culture by replacing the idea of talent with the idea of representation, which, by its nature, reduces critical judgment to that of accuracy, of how faithfully the writer or the artist has, in the great phrase of José Vasconcelos, let his “race” ('“raza” in Spanish, but in the contemporary world it …