Woke art is rubbish. 'Make war on your peers and yourselves,' as Nietzsche said. Live dangerously, write dangerously. Remake the culture. Be a hero.
Cambridge graduate, ex-professor of Creative Writing, Englishman, neo-Nietzschean, and foe of wokeness, Powell is the author of the satire Our Parent Who Art in Heaven (Flame Books, 2022). In future he may be known as Gareth Craig Powell.
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