notes on woke

identity politics may be dead but identity itself is still inscribed upon many against their will

In 2013 the late left-wing theorist Mark Fisher published an essay titled Exiting the Vampire Castle, an excoriating polemic about the left and what was then called “call-out culture”, subsequently termed “cancel culture” as well as what Fisher describes as “the sour-faced identitarian piety foisted upon us by moralisers on the post-structuralist ‘left’…