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The Revolution Will Not Be Psychologized, Part 2 (Interview w/ Báyò Akómoláfé)

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The Psychology Vernacular

We need some kind of ontological mutiny that allows us to notice new ways of being in the world. And psychology is quite, is that a heart of that story, if you will. It's already assigning boundaries between what it presupposes as an external event and what should be the lines of a proper subject. Learning in Psychology 101 is the scientific observation of human behavior. You're neutrally observing and recording and categorizing. It's apolitical. If you really want to get down with understanding how human behavior works,. What that definition hides is that it is actively creating human behavior. It is committed to a liberal humanist traditional subject. We cannot do that until we think about

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