Categories Outsiders The LeftHip, Woke, Square: Postscript on Mailer Post author By Geoff Shullenberger Post date January 12, 2022 “Woke” once denoted an oppositional mentality. How has it come to mean something close to “square”? Tags black lives matter, hip, hipsters, norman mailer, outsiders, repressive desublimation, the counterculture, woke, wokeness