Author and public intellectual Báyò Akómoláfé discusses stepping out of human-centric views, creating a new language for neurodiversity, and exploring 'hushes' that disrupt narratives. They reflect on diverse cultural backgrounds, interdisciplinary studies, and the beauty of elusive ideas. Embracing opacity in narratives and challenging completion in storytelling are key themes, along with the concept of 'Hushism' and the liberating experience of swimming in the sea.
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Discovering intelligence in landscapes and systems challenges human control beliefs.
Creating a new language for neurodivergent experiences and resisting imposed labels.
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In this week’s episode of How We Live Now, Katherine speaks to author and public intellectual Báyò Akómoláfé. We consider how we can step out of the belief that humanity is in control of a passive planet, and instead wonder how we can learn to read the intelligence of the systems and landscapes that we inhabit. We meander our way to autism, and begin to think about how we can create a new language of neurodivergent experience that resists the labels applied from disinterested - or disgusted - outside viewers. And we take a look at ‘hushes’, the shadowy, scuttling figures that disrupt Báyò’s narratives.
Born in Nigeria, Báyò is a writer, speaker, teacher and founder of The Emergence Network who finds his most sacred work in fatherhood. His book, These Wilds Beyond Our Fences, is an extraordinary meandering through the cutting edge of contemporary philosophy framed in letters to his daughter, Alethea. He is also the editor of We Will Tell Our Own Story, an anthology exploring Black African scholarship and knowledge. He now divides his time between Germany, India and the USA.
Katherine's new book, Enchantment, is available now: US/CAN and UK