The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 164
What is the Woke worldview? It’s called “critical constructivism.” How is it adopted? The formal name for picking up “Wokeness” is adopting “critical hermeneutics.” What in the world does that mean? It means viewing the world through lenses of power as described by critical theory and social constructivism. That is, it means reading Marxian analysis into all perceptions of the world and believing this makes you more “enlightened.” In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay takes you through another segment of what he calls “The Book of Woke,” i.e., Critical Constructivism: A Primer, by Joe L. Kincheloe, a (late) critical education theorist. Join him to have all these questions answered and to clarify your thinking about what “Woke” means even more.
This episode is Part 2 in a developing series exploring “The Book of Woke.” Find Part 1 here, and Part 3 here.
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The Professor of Parody M Nussbaum
I think it hard to disagree with the idea that everything is seen through a hermeneutical lens, or, as JL puts it, is mediated. The question is who or what is mediating. And the difficulty with the woke pattern of obfuscation is that they don’t make it clear until you are some kind of adept that their lens or mediator is the ideology of marxist revolution. Thus, I have books by two excellent writers who speak approvingly of Freire; they are fooled by the nice sounding ideas and desire for justice for the poor, where anyone more aware of such things instantly picks up that Freire’s writings are thinly veiled marxist screeds. This is why JL’s ability to expose the nonsense is so valuable. (It continues to make no sense to me, however, to refer to the ‘woke right’ – not if woke means post-modernist neo-marxism, which it does!).