Contemporarily, the word “woke” has moved into the popular lexicon, largely to mean aware of and ideally doing something about systemic racism. After the George Floyd murder, and many other state-sanctioned murders of Black Americans, protests erupted globally, and public administrators responded either with actionable policy changes or sometimes symbolic, “woke” statements that did little to alter the system. In this conceptual paper, we explore the reasons for this via Baudrillard's phases of the image, showing how the word “woke” has moved from roots in the Black community to being weaponized today via its disconnection from this reality, thus trending toward its own hyperreality. In this final phase, the word “woke” has no connection to its former reality, leading to the passage of legislation that upholds White power structures.

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觉醒的武器化：管理剧场及其对公共行政的影响

同时，“woke”这个词已经进入了流行的词典，主要意味着意识到并在理想情况下对系统性种族主义做一些事情。在乔治·弗洛伊德 (George Floyd) 谋杀案和许多其他国家批准的美国黑人谋杀案之后，全球范围内爆发了抗议活动，公共行政人员要么做出了可采取行动的政策改变，要么有时是象征性的“醒悟”声明，这些声明对改变系统几乎没有影响。在这篇概念论文中，我们通过鲍德里亚的图像阶段探讨了造成这种情况的原因，展示了“醒来”这个词是如何从黑人社区的根源转变为今天通过与现实的脱节而被武器化的，从而趋向于它自己的超现实. 在最后阶段，“醒来”这个词与其以前的现实没有任何联系，导致通过了支持白人权力结构的立法。