"Let's not be negative, the town hall of Paris has the cutting edge of WOKE art and culture. How much did this marvel cost?"
#IRLArtistPaulMcCarthy #2014_ #PhenomnArtsSculptureInflatable
Context: "McCarthy told the paper that the sculpture 'started as a joke.' He says that he originally thought that butt plugs have a similar shape to a Brancusi sculpture and later realized that, in green, the form was also redolent of a Christmas tree. 'But it is an abstract work,' McCarthy contends. 'People may be offended if they want to refer to [it as a] plug, but, for me, it is more of an abstraction'" (17 October 2014). https://news.artnet.com/market/paul-mccarthy-beaten-up-over-butt-plug-sculpture-136129 #IRLArtistConstantinBrancusi
#IdentityLGBTQIA #OrgClassifPPFREuropeEcologieLesVertsEELV #OrgClassifPPFREuropeEcologieLesVertsEELVSandrineRousseau #OrgClassifPPFRNouvelleUnionPopulaireEcologiqueEtSocialeNUPES #CauseFeminism #OrgFRCollectifNousToutes ? i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectif_NousToutes versus #PhenomnRectitudeDecencyCommon
"While it only stood in the city for a couple of days in 2014..." https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/events-and-entertainment/this-massive-penis-slide-has-been-erected-in-a-lower-mainland-playground-photo-4499730 #2014_ #ToponymAmericaNorthCanadaBritishColumbiaVancouver
Context: https://factcheck.afp.com/http%253A%252F%252Fdoc.afp.com%252F9QG62N-1
Giant Inflatable Sun Vagina #PhenomnArtsSculptureInflatable #BrandAirworksInflatables i.e. https://www.airworksrentals.com/product/vagina/
#IRLJournalistHamzaSyed i.e. https://twitter.com/HamzaMSyed/status/1603099426062417921 #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimes #NMUSCNN #NewspaperUSTabloidNationalEnquirer #MetaphorDeceitImpostureTrojanHorse #ToponymEuropeUKBirmingham
Context: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/podcast-dept/the-trojan-horse-affair-works-best-when-studying-itself And https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/20/the-trojan-horse-affair-how-serial-podcast-got-it-so-wrong #2022_TheTrojanHorseAffair #LiteralJournalismNarrative #AdvocacyUKPolicyExchange #OtheringHateIslamophobiaAntiMuslim #IdentityDiasporaPakistani #IRLFilmmakerProducerBrianReed #OrgClassifPPUKConservativesMichaelGove #OrgUKGovDptForEducationDfE #PhenomnMongeringFear #2014_ #OrgUKParkViewEducationalTrustTahirAlam
#TheoryProxemicsIntimateDistance left-to-right, top-to-bottom:
A). #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSJoeBiden appears with #IRLPrivateCitizenStephanieCarter during former Defense Secretary #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyAshCarter's swearing in ceremony in the White House on Feb. 17, #2015_. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo. Via: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/31/joe-biden-stephanie-carter-1246007
B). #IRLActorEvaLongoria, co-founder of the Latino Victory PAC, speaks at a get-out-the-vote rally as Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor and current Nevada Assemblywoman #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyLucyFlores (D-Las Vegas) and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden look on at a union hall on November 1, #2014_ in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Via: https://www.zimbio.com/photos/Joe+Biden/Eva+Longoria/OqeeEd2L9eK/Joe+Biden+Eva+Longoria+Campaign+Nevada+Democrats
C). Vice President Biden leans in to say something to #IRLPrivateCitizenMaggieCoons after he administers the Senate oath to her father, #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyChrisCoons (D-Del.), left, during a ceremonial swearing-in Tuesday on Capitol Hill. (Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press). #2015_ Via: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/01/11/coons-my-daughter-doesnt-think-joe-biden-is-creepy/
D). Vice President Joe Biden, center, kisses a niece of incoming Senate Majority Leader #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPMitchMcConnell of Ky., left, with McConnell's wife, former Labor Secretary #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPElaineChao, on the head during a ceremonial re-enactment swearing-in ceremony, Tuesday, Jan. 6, #2015_, in the Old Senate Chamber of Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin). Via: https://eu.courier-journal.com/picture-gallery/news/politics/mitch-mcconnell/2015/01/06/gallery--mcconnell-sworn-in-as-senate-majority-leader/21349667/
Context: in reference to image 'A' above - Stephanie Carter explains: "By the time then-Vice President Biden had arrived, he could sense I was uncharacteristically nervous - and quickly gave me a hug. After the swearing in, as Ash was giving remarks, he [Joe Biden] leaned in to tell me 'thank you for letting him [Ash Carter] do this' and kept his hands on my shoulders as a means of offering his support. But a still shot taken from a video -- misleadingly extracted from what was a longer moment between close friends -- sent out in a snarky tweet -- came to be the lasting image of that day." https://medium.com/@scarterdc/the-metoo-story-that-wasnt-me-6c1d5eb1e94d (not) #CauseMeToo
Addendum: Clearly, this meme seeks to discredit Bidden through strongly inferring his sexual impropriety (seemingly the slur is the product of a social-conservative imagination because evocation of of moral #TheoryAffectiveResponsePanic ). #OtheringOutGroupTransgressiveDeviant When considered in relation to Trump, surely any implied transgression is paled by comparison? i.e. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/nov/30/donald-trump-sexual-misconduct-allegations-full-list
"New study Fondapol The woke ideology by Valent1Pierre. This study aims to analyse the growing influence of this belief system on our Western societies."
#AdvocacyFRFondapolPierreValentin https://www.fondapol.org/etude/lideologie-woke-1-anatomie-du-wokisme/ And https://www.fondapol.org/etude/lideologie-woke-2-face-au-wokisme/ #TheoryPostmodern i.e. #TheoryPostmodernConservatism #CharacterisationWeaknessVictimismVictimMentality #PolicyDiversityEquityAndInclusionDEI #TauntWokeism #EDUUSEvergreenStateCollegeBretWeinstein #IRLDeceasedGeorgeFloyd #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #IRLSingerEricaWrightAKAErykahBadu / #IRLSingerGeorgiaAnneMuldrow #2008_MasterTeacher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dieo6bp4zQw
#IRLAuthorHelenPluckrose
#WebsiteNewDiscoursesJamesLindsay
#IRLScholarPeterBoghossian
#2018_SokalSquaredHoax i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair And https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2018/10/30/sokal-squared-hoax-was-put-down-scholars-concerned-racial-issues-opinion (Joel P. Christensen and Matthew A. Sears, 30 October 2018).
#IRLPhilosopherMichelFoucault
#IRLPhilosopherJacquesDerrida
#IRLPhilosopherMartinHeidegger
#TheoryRelativismCultural i.e. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/relativism/
#PhenomnColonialism / #TheoryCriticalPostcolonialism #IdentityFirstNations #IRLScholarPierreAndreTaguieff
#PhenomnAgeOfEnlightenment
#PhenomnSkepticismRadical
#IRLScholarKimberleCrenshaw
#TheorySociologyIntersectionality
#IRLScholarMaryPoovey
#OtheringDiscriminationRacismSystemicInstitutional
#IRLPhilosopherJudithButler
#IdentityLGBTQIA
#IRLAuthorDavidHalperin
#TheoryCriticalRaceTheoryCRT ('race' translated as 'breed' here, which I assume is a language/translation discrepancy, rather than semantic one).
"Fox News has mentioned critical breed theory nearly 1,300 times over a three-and-a-half-month period" (23 June 2021). https://www.fr24news.com/a/2021/06/trumpworld-bets-big-on-critical-race-theory.html
#TheoryRacialColourBlindness e.g. https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=41856
#TheoryMarginalisation
#IRLScholarEveKosofskySedgwick
#IRLScholarGayatriChakravortySpivak
#PhenomnUnityStrategicEssentialism i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_essentialism
#IRLActivistHouriaBouteldja
#OrgFRIndigenesDeLaRepubliqueIR
Fahs, B., & Karger, M. (2016). Women's Studies as Virus: Institutional Feminism, Affect, and the Projection of Danger. Multidisciplinary Journal of Gender Studies, 5(1), 929-957. https://doi.org/10.17583/generos.2016.1683
#IRLScholarBradleyCampbell & #IRLScholarJasonManning
#PowerControlMicrofascismMicroaggression
#IRLAuthorDeraldWingSue
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/exeter-university-students-racist-whatsapp-suspended-facebook-law-society-investigation-a8264756.html
#EDUUSBostonUniversityIbramXKendi
#TauntCultureCancel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocqueville_effect
#IRLScholarJonathanHaidt &
#AdvocacyUSFoundationForIndividualRightsAndExpressionFIREGregLukianoff
LUKIANOFF, G., & HAIDT, J. (2018). The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting up a Generation for Failure.
#IRLScholarStevenHorwitz
#TheoryStockholmSyndrome
#IRLAuthorRobinDiAngelo
#IRLUltracrepidarianAllyHenny
#WebsiteSpikedAndrewDoyleAKATitaniaMcGrath
Supplementary: #IRLScholarDeandreMilesHercules
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S06C9fgtbNQ&t=17s
"Woke in its initial inception meant political consciousness for Black people about the histories of anti-Blackness in this [USA] country and globally rather than this kind of more generalised political consciousness that it came to take up. One thing that I think is a very common misunderstanding about woke is the idea that it was derived from this phrase 'stay woke'. Woke itself is a standalone word. It's a word that conforms to the syntactic and phonological, which is to say that the sound system and grammatical principles, of African American English which has its origins in the South. 'Awake' is synonymous with 'woke' right, so one might say, 'I was woke about, let's say 7am'. The idea of 'wakefulness' as a concept referring to political consciousness stretches as far back as 1923, and then we see it going all the way up through the 1980s. Marcus Garvey in 'The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey' in the frame of what we might think of as black nationalist tradition where he says, 'wake up Ethiopia, wake up Africa, let us work towards the one end of a glorious and redeemed and mighty nation', he's talking about political consciousness in the same way as Laurence Fishburne's character at the end of 'School Daze' in the 1980s film. In 1962, a New York Times article by a guy named [William] Melvin Kelley 'If You're Woke You Dig It' writing about cultural appropriation and linguistic appropriation of Black language and culture by white people, specifically. As early as the 1990s or the late 1980s, you see it more attached to the idea of 'political correctness'. This is the point of which white people I would suggest, begin using it reflexively. And so it doesn't now just have the meaning of thinking about anti-Blackness from the perspective of someone who experiences it. More now it refers to this more general sense of awareness, as a marker of general political consciousness attention to such issues as those environmental, feminists, regarding ability and so on. Childish Gambino's song 'Redbone', canonised the phrase 'stay woke' for a popular audience. While Childish Gambino might understand that 'wokeness', at least in its original inception, has a lot to do with our awareness of anti-Black oppression. Listeners to the song from a variety of demographics all over the world aren't abreast of that history and now are using it, the phrase, in a way that destroys its meaning. But it has also been taken up more recently by conservatives. And it became used in a negative or pejorative fashion, right or at least one that is mocking or sarcastic. In fact, it's a well-known and popular tactic of conservatives to pick up and shift the meanings of individual terms, to then weaponize them. Mark Milley and Matt Gaetz arguing about what's woke and what isn't, whether it's good or whether it's bad, where that has nothing to do with the case of the Scottsboro Boys or Emmett Till or Trayvon Martin or Sandra Bland or Rodney King or Ahmaud Arbery or Breonna Taylor or George Floyd. I'm not suggesting that it's necessarily a conscious process, but it's the result of the kind of consumption of Black culture, which has always had a lot of capital purchase in the United States and pop culture globally." (5 August 2021, #WebsiteBrut). https://www.brut.media/us/news/brut-vocab-why-we-say-woke--ccd9916d-c0e0-42a8-98c2-615d05ad8895
#TheoryLinguisticsSemanticShift
#TheoryLinguisticsSocioAfricanAmericanVernacularEnglishAAVE
#MetaphorWokeWakefulnessAwake
#IRLActivistMarcusGarvey
#ToponymAfricaEastEthiopia
#IRLActorLaurenceFishburne
#1988_SchoolDaze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7iSvkZ0vLQ #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesWilliamMelvinKelley #1962_IfYoureWokeYouDigIt #IRLActorDonaldGloverAKAChildishGambino #2016_Redbone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRJnZsB52Es&t=73s #OrgUSFedAFMMarkMilley #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPMattGaetz #1938_ScottsboroBoys #IRLDeceasedEmmettTill #IRLDeceasedTrayvonMartin #IRLDeceasedSandraBland #IRLPrivateCitizenRodneyKing #IRLDeceasedAhmaudArbery #IRLDeceasedBreonnaTaylor https://www.okayplayer.com/originals/stay-woke-history-georgia-anne-muldrow-erykah-badu-master-teacher.html #TheoryCriticalRaceTheoryCRT https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1009839021/uncovering-who-is-driving-the-fight-against-critical-race-theory-in-schools?t=1627328036978 #_Focal
And #WebsiteVoxAjaRomano: "Before 2014, the call to 'stay woke' was, for many people, unheard of. The idea behind it was common within Black communities at that point -- the notion that staying 'woke' and alert to the deceptions of other people was a basic survival tactic. But in 2014, following the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, 'stay woke' suddenly became the cautionary watchword of Black Lives Matter activists on the streets, used in a chilling and specific context : keeping watch for police brutality and unjust police tactics." (9 October 2020). https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-history-origin-evolution-controversy #IRLDeceasedMichaelBrown #IRLPoliceDarrenWilson #ToponymAmericaNorthUSMissouriStLouisCountyFerguson #CauseBlackLivesMatterBLM #2014_
#ConspiracyTheoryNewWorldOrderNWO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60eNP3ij7Vc #MetaphorHierarchyStratificationSocial #IRLPersonalityMediaRussellBrand #VlogJoeRoganExperienceJRE #ConspiracyTheoryCabalIlluminati
Context: this graphic appears to feature in the clip: https://media.moddb.com/images/groups/1/3/2923/TDgUdWW.png (seemingly, as an extension of the #1911_PyramidOfCapitalistSystem as imagined by a #TheoryVictimhoodWhiteThymos #CharacterisationConspiracist who believes in a NWO conspiracy).
Addendum: the above clip presents this notice "Video unavailable. This video is not available in your country" however, from what I can make out, it is a version of the #VlogJuiceRapNews i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juice_Rap_News #BeliefConspiracy #2014_ parody:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4nSjPdT788 The shared version appears to have come via #NMRURussiaTodayRT (as indicated by the RT logo, which has been inserted on top of version of the clip's poster frame). The clip is mentioned here: https://www.rt.com/news/210119-nwo-new-world-order/ "Juice Rap News: The New World Order
The New World Order: They control the world's governments, they rule over all of us from the top of the pyramid. And we are the victims. Right?
Today's Juice Rap News blows open the truth about the NWO in order to shed light on this widespread conspiracy, which has frequently been invoked to explain the state of our world (30 Nov, 2014 09:32)".