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317) Bayo Akomolafe: Slowing down and surrendering human supremacy

Jul 20, 2021

Dr. Bayo Akomolafe, a posthumanist thinker and author, discusses the need to slow down and surrender human control. He challenges Western psychology, advocates for experimental transformation, and explores the practice of unschooling. The importance of embracing marginalized spaces and the concept of hopelessness are also highlighted.

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Reevaluating our relationship with the world and embracing a more expansive understanding of being and becoming beyond human centrality.

Challenging traditional activism and embracing alternative forms of transformation that recognize the agency and complexities of the world.

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Embracing a Post-Humanist Perspective

Dr. Bioacomolafe, a post-humanist thinker, challenges the notion of human centrality and pushes for a reevaluation of our relationship with the world. He shares his journey of studying with indigenous healers in Nigeria, who taught him to see the agency of the world and view what Western psychology labels as spiritual crises differently. Dr. Bio describes himself as a recovering psychologist, seeking to move beyond the limitations of Western systems and embracing a more expansive understanding of being and becoming.

Introduction

2min

Exploring Indigenous Healing and Challenging Western Psychology

3min

Moving Beyond Critique and Justice

29min

Embodying Futurativity and Unschooling Children

2min

Lightning round questions and reflections on hope and hopelessness

3min

Slowing down and surrendering human supremacy

5min

What does it mean that we have a crisis in form—that our problems go deeper than the visible systems we often attribute them to? What might we gain from surrendering human control and centrality, slowing down even as we feel increasing urgency to address social injustice and climate change?

In this episode, we're joined by Dr. Bayo Akomolafe. Rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, Bayo is the father to Alethea and Kyah, the grateful life-partner to Ije, son and brother. A widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak, Bayo Akomolafe is the Chief Curator of The Emergence Network and host of the online postactivist course, ‘We Will dance with Mountains’.

The musical offering in this episode is I'm Not a Mountain by Sarah Kinsley.

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