I have just finished Musa al-Gharbi’s We Have Never Been Woke. It is a useful book because it does not offer the usual lazy attack on “wokeness.” Its more serious argument is about class, status, language, and moral performance. It shows how some highly educated professional classes can speak the language of justice while still … Continue reading Never Been Woke
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Seeing clearly
Morning mist in a Paris park. Gravel underfoot. A bench damp with yesterday’s rain. I dream I am walking with Jean Baudrillard, the air faintly metallic, autumn leaves arranged like unfinished sentences. Election year in Aotearoa New Zealand, I tell him. Stakes high. Voices louder than usual. He smiles, almost indulgently. “Louder does not mean … Continue reading Seeing clearly
The Mirror We Avoid
It begins with hope. The kind of hope that folds neatly into a carry-on suitcase, stuffed between passport stamps and addresses of friends, cousins and relatives on your WhatsApp who promised a sofa bed and maybe, if lucky, a job. Many South Asian migrants arrived in Aotearoa, or across the West, with little more than … Continue reading The Mirror We Avoid
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