Alright, hey everybody, it's James Lindsay, you're listening to the new Discourses podcast.

This is, I mean, normally my episodes are all explanatory. If something try to take you on a deep dive into some aspect of something relevant to the woke movement and literature, today I'm actually going to kind of do a side diversion podcast to explain something new I'm doing here at New Discourses, in particular, I'm kind of venturing into, I don't know how far I'm going to go into this, I'm kind of venturing into sort of by accident as a matter of fact, both

publishing with the new discourses imprint or at least I'm about to publish not one but two books with the new discourses imprint at least as a beginning for this. And so the first of these, I know a lot of you are anticipating my, my own forthcoming book that I wrote, which I think I'm going to title Race Marxism, which is nearly done and I will self publish that through new discourses and an imprint of new discourses. So that'll be coming hopefully within a month or two, but I'm excited actually to bring to you guys

another book that somebody reached out to me earlier in the year sometime this spring with a kind of a guide, a field manual as a matter of fact is what we're calling it called Counter-Wokecraft. And so this is a book written by a fairly insightful academic in STEM by the name of Charles Pincourt and we're going to release this book fairly soon.

Our new discourses probably by the time you're listening to this, it will have already come out. So you'll be able to go to Amazon and purchase that because that's how we are self publishing it. And so the book is called Counter-Wokecraft, a field manual for combating the woke in the university and beyond.

Now, the names on this book to be clear are Charles Pincourt and James Lindsay, more specifically Charles Pincourt with James Lindsay. And I want to hasten to point out kind of the story behind this book before I kind of detail what it's about and why you definitely want to be interested in it.

I did not write this book. And so what happened is that Charles wrote this book based very heavily off of a work that I have done on new discourses but more importantly be works that I've done on cynical theories with Helen Pluckrose.

And in fact, the beginning of the book is all discussed momentarily expands upon some of what we lay out as a basic framework in cynical theories so that works. And then when Charles presented it to me and said, what do you think, what can we do with this? Can you promote? I think you just wanted me to kind of promote it, right? Very modest guy. And I said, you know, are you willing to try to maybe publish this if we publish this as a new discourses book, which you be interested in that.

And he was happy about that. And again, very modest as his goal was whatever you, I remember him saying literally whatever you think will get it to reach the widest audience and help the most people.

So, you know, he's coming from the right place and handed this to me and I read it and, you know, it's only about a hundred pages or so, just a little over. And it's short. It's a quick read. It takes a few hours tops.

And it's just really, I was really impressed with this idea. And most importantly, this is what I want to talk about what I'm going to talk about it through the context of the book to kind of get you interested in seeing why you would want to have it.

The concept of woke craft itself was an I think is an important and enlightening idea.

And so I offered, I read it through the manuscript and I offered him a ton of suggestions for things he might do to beef it up or whatever if he wanted to.

It was all take it or leave it. I don't care. It was kind of what I said, but I said you can strengthen this here and there's a tangential here and there's a point here and this would be good there.

And I really like what you did here that you consider adding this there. And so after working with that kind of list of suggestions is many of which, you know, I spelled out in some.

You know, paragraphs worth of detail or at least a paragraph worth of detail each.

That poor, it was in his Twitter DM, actually, it's poor guy had to read an unbelievable wall of text in a Twitter DM environment, which kind of funny.

After going through this with him, we decided that we would put both of our names on the cover because if I recall the way he phrase it, you know, basically he leaned on my work or sites my work on nearly all pages.

But I want to make it very clear for everybody that I didn't write this book, but I did I guess in that sense intellectually contribute to it unless there be any mistake.

That since my name is on the cover and on the copyright, but I can't recommend this book highly enough.

Let me just kind of start. I'm just going to kind of go through the table contents because I'm not going to read the book to you.

Yet, ever maybe it's, you know, under the typical contractual embargo. So it's not my place to do that, but counter woke craft a field manual for combating the woke in the university and beyond.

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