Bayo Akomolafe | On Not Thinking Straight
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October 25, 2021
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This was the first lecture in the Institute for Philosophy and the New Humanities 2021 seminar series, "Objectivity in the Humanities." The seminar series is generously funded by the Udo Keller Foundation.
Bayo Akomolafe is a recipient of the 2021 New Thought Walden Award, meant to honor those who use empowering spiritual ideas and philosophies to change lives and make our planet a better place. He has been Visiting Professor at Middlebury College, where he taught on ‘transraciality’ (his neo-materialist take on racialization) and postactivism. He has also taught at Sonoma State University (CA, USA), Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada), and Schumacher College (Totnes, England) - among other universities around the world. He is a widely appreciated speaker, teacher, public intellectual, author and facilitator, globally recognized for his poetic, unconventional, counterintuitive, and indigenous take on global crisis, civic action and social change.
He is the Executive Director and Chief Curator for The Emergence Network (A Post-Activist Project] and host of the online writing course, ‘We Will Dance with Mountains: Writing as a Tool for Emergence’. As Coordinating Curator of The Emergence Network, Bayo hopes to inspire a diffractive network of sharing - a slowing down, an ethics of entanglement, an activism of inquiry, a ‘politics of surprise’…one that does not treat the crises of our times as exterior to ‘us’ or the ‘solutions’ that conventional activism offers as discrete or separate from the problems that we seek to nullify.
Bayo is author and editor of ‘We Will Tell Our Own Story!’ with Professors Molefi Kete Asante and Augustine Nwoye, and These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to my Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (North Atlantic Books, 2017).
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Presented by the Institute for Philosophy and the New Humanities at The New School for Social Research, the University of Bonn, and the Udo Keller Foundation.
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10:22 is where the presentation begins
bayo’s vision from the liminal space is so refreshing. it’s inclusive of all, even with what’s uncomfortable and the comfortable and their intersections, and their movements, not in our static suspensions of objective views. sometimes my words cannot even begin to describe, more so to watch the sensations as it creates space from all the tensions of the modern world.
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This rocks
To that first question, the problem that humans are DOING too much. The solution is to DO less.