Planetary Regeneration Podcast 070: Bayo Akomolafe | Rituals of Incompleteness in the Age of AI
Apr 14, 2025
In this insightful discussion, Bayo Akomolafe, a philosopher, poet, and founder of the Emergence Network, shares his views on AI as both a trickster and a transformative force. He emphasizes the sacredness of incompleteness and the need for new rituals amidst modernity's chaos. From exploring Yoruba cosmology to challenging traditional notions of power, Akomolafe advocates for a decolonial perspective on identity. He argues for a fluid interplay between old wisdom and contemporary challenges, promoting creativity and connection as vital in navigating our unpredictable world.
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AI as Ontological Trickster
- AI functions like a trickster, challenging our notion of what it means to be human and disturbing traditional ideas of cognition and intelligence.
- It provokes a deep ontological rupture forcing us to reconsider human exceptionalism and presence in the world.
Decoloniality Embraces Incompleteness
- Decoloniality means embracing the radical incompleteness of everything, rejecting fixed, final categories imposed by coloniality.
- It exposes the limits of colonial thinking and invites us into a world of openness and fluid relationality.
Distributed Agency and Materiality
- Agency is distributed across assemblages and material realities; humans are not sole agents.
- Matter matters as much as language, challenging traditional linguistic-dominated understandings of meaning and reality.