Love & Philosophy #56: Radical Incompleteness & Windows of Ritournelle with Bayo Akomolafe
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Apr 10, 2025 
Bayo Akomolafe, a philosopher, psychologist, and poet, discusses the transformative power of love and the complexities of relational dynamics. He highlights the radical incompleteness of love and how it challenges binary categorizations. Reflecting on his personal journey, Bayo shares insights on memory, loss, and care. The conversation also explores the impact of the pandemic on family dynamics and the importance of self-awareness in recognizing disruptive patterns in our lives. Embracing life's messiness, they reveal new possibilities for connection.
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Binaries as Organizing Principles
- Binaries are helpful for organizing a complex world, offering care and legibility.
- However, binaries oversimplify, obscuring the relational tensions within them, like "worlds in their becoming."
The Ritournelle and Cracks in Structure
- Cultures and categories offer structure and care but can become restrictive.
- Cracks in these structures allow new possibilities to emerge, even within repetition.
Bayo's Search for His Father
- Bayo tried to "save" his deceased father by understanding faith and building a "time machine."
- This failed, leading him to realize that the "afterlife" is in the present, diffracted within the world.
