{"product_id":"woke-ouroboros-segregation-and-essentialism-9781097783588","title":"Woke Ouroboros: Segregation and Essentialism","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy is it so hard to talk about wokeness? According to \u003ci\u003eMerriam-Webster, \u003c\/i\u003e\"woke\" means \"aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice),\" but it rarely seems that's \u003ci\u003eall\u003c\/i\u003e it means.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf one asks the right, \"woke\" is a pejorative term for someone pushing identity-only politics. If one asks the left, it's a signifier one isn't a bigot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf one asks Peter Coffin, author of \u003ci\u003eLess Sucks: Overpopulation, Eugenics, and Degrowth\u003c\/i\u003e (and producer of the documentary of the same name), \"wokeness\" is an ideology used to obscure power and funnel people into left\/right political fandoms - ensuring culture war arguments that solve nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWoke Ouroboros\u003c\/i\u003e is a grounded criticism of \"wokeness\" built on top of a materialist conception of the relations of power through production - a thorough-but-accessible examination of one of the most fraught political conversations Americans are having and the implications it has via the imperialist world order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Coffin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/16\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.72d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781097783588\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40981098463347,"sku":"9.7811E+12","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_4942844c-78a1-4ee7-9e2a-6edcd2f1db47.jpg?v=1696430316","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/woke-ouroboros-segregation-and-essentialism-9781097783588","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}