DR. BÁYÒ AKÓMOLÁFÉ on Ontological Mutiny /338

For The Wild

Philosophy, Society & Culture, For The Wild, Anthropocene, Story Telling, Religion & Spirituality, Decolonization, Progressive, Liberation, Land, Media

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

How are the crises of our times crises of being, crises of becoming? In this week’s conversation, Ayana is joined by returning guest Dr. Báyò Akómoláfé. Ayana and Báyò dance together through questions of crisis, identity, and rupture. As we attempt to break from the monoculture that cements us as citizen subjects of empire, Báyò suggests that we need an ontological mutiny.

Pointing out the possibilities of a more generous and spacious politics, Báyò calls listeners’ attention to the duplicity of safety. Perhaps the things from which we recoil contain promise. As we try to stabilize, cracks will emerge, and Báyò invites us to nurture each other through the ruptures. How might we descend to the crises of our times, and embrace the decay and compost that modernity has come to detest?

Bayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.), rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, 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 (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak, Bayo Akomolafe is the Founder of The Emergence Network and host of the postactivist course/festival/event, ‘We Will Dance with Mountains’.

For an extended version of this episode join us on Patreon at patreon.com/forthewild.

Music by Julio Kintu (Chloe Utley), Jahnavi Veronica, Leyla McCalla, and Los Hombres Calientes. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.

Support the show

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	To listen to the extended version of this episode, support us on patreon.com slash for the wild.
0:11.3	Hello and welcome to For the Wild Podcast. I'm Ayanna Young. Today we are speaking with Dr.
0:18.8	Bio Comlafe. We're faced with an invitation for new and and powerfully potent frameworks that
0:28.2	might invite us to shape shift. What's called into question here is our rectilinear posture.
0:34.9	It's how our bodies are embodied. It's how our paradigms have coddled us and kept us safe.
0:42.0	And we've been invited to story new ideas, to story new tensions, to libate those
0:49.9	vexed grounds and to ask new questions about what it means to be alive now.
0:55.6	Bio Comlafe PhD rooted with the Yeruba people in a more than human world is the father of
1:02.9	Alithia and Kaya, the grateful life partner to EJ, son and brother, a widely celebrated
1:10.8	international speaker, posthumanist, thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist,
1:18.0	and author of two books. These wilds beyond our fences letters to my daughter on humanity
1:24.0	search for home, North Atlantic books, and we will tell our own story, the Lions of Africa speak.
1:31.6	Bio Comlafe is the founder of the Emergence Network and host of the post activist,
1:38.2	course, festival event. We will dance with mountains. He currently lectures at Pacifica
1:44.4	Graduate Institute, California. He sits on the board of many organizations, including
1:49.6	science and non-duality and ancient futures. In July 2022, Dr. Comlafe was appointed the inaugural
1:57.6	global senior fellow of University of California's Berkeley, othering and belonging institute.
2:04.5	He has also been appointed fellow of the new institute in Hamburg, Germany, and visiting
2:10.3	critic and residence for the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. He is the recipient
2:16.5	of the new Thought Leadership Award 2021 and the Excellence in Ethnicultural Psychotherapy Award
2:24.0	by the African Mental Health Summit in 2022.
2:31.7	Oh, Bio, I'm so happy to have this time with you. I know I'm in for a wild ride.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from For The Wild, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of For The Wild and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.