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

Emergence Magazine Podcast

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A New Vision of the DNA Molecule

The idea of bio-determinism, though sticky and influential, has become largely discredited. The processes by which bodies become bodies are more complicated than simply attributing how bodies materialize to a linear causal flow from one source - DNA. This is why we return to DNA, because it now unfolds within the anthropocene, when essences and static identities have become untenable. A new story soils the ground, one which confounds the neatness of racial order and racial justice.

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