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When You Meet the Monster, Anoint Its Feet – Bayo Akomolafe

Emergence Magazine Podcast

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The Transversality of the Flesh in the Anthropocene

The emergent story of race in the Anthropocene draws our attention to the wildness of our bodies. New technologies are revealing what I would like to call the transversality of the flesh, or trans-raciality. The queer's nature, just like monsters, opens up cracks in the orders of things through which new systems might be glimpsed. In many iterations of our Bata'ala story he returns to the heavens after creating the earth and the life that lives on it. But it is also said that he remained on earth.

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