Posts tagged imagination
Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Slowing Down in Urgent Times [ENCORE] /285
Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Slowing Down in Urgent Times [ENCORE] /285

Bayo invites us to pause and abandon solutionism, step back from the project of progress, and dance into a different set of questions: What does the Anthropocene teach us as a destabilizing agent that resists our taming? What happens when we unfurl into a space of slowness and relinquish human mastery to a wider cosmic net of relations?

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Cultural Strategy, Radical Imagination, Transition Transformation, Theory ScholarshipFor The Wildslowing down, Anthropocene, fugitivity, fugitive spaces, the sacred, entanglement, decolonization, Yoruba mythology, relationality, intergenerational movements, queer negativity, queer failure, embodiment, nonlinearity, deterritorialize, imagination, bewilderment, grieving, mourning, ceremony, trickster spirit, poetry, dying well, allyship, Fred Moten, Karen Barad, Helena Norburg, Jack Halberstam, Stephen Jeninkson, fatherhood, unschooling, modernity, shapeshifting, compost, Donna Haraway Inspired, bayo akomolafe, Slow Study 1 Comments
Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Slowing Down in Urgent Times /155
Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Slowing Down in Urgent Times /155

Plunging into deep pools of philosophy and imagination, Ayana and Bayo’s conversation winds through dimensions of the new and the ancient: Yoruba mythology, children as guides to bewilderment, the strategy of separation, grieving as ceremony, trickster spirits, and the teachings of failure and brokenness.

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Cultural Strategy, Radical Imagination, Transition Transformation, Theory ScholarshipFor The Wildslowing down, Anthropocene, fugitivity, fugitive spaces, the sacred, entanglement, decolonization, Yoruba mythology, relationality, intergenerational movements, queer negativity, queer failure, embodiment, nonlinearity, deterritorialize, imagination, bewilderment, grieving, mourning, ceremony, trickster spirit, poetry, dying well, allyship, Fred Moten, Karen Barad, Helena Norburg, Jack Halberstam, Stephen Jeninkson, fatherhood, unschooling, modernity, shapeshifting, compost, Donna Haraway Inspired Comments
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS on Sacred Rage and the Battle for Public Lands /54
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS on Sacred Rage and the Battle for Public Lands /54

Terry Tempest Williams guides us to explore acts of the imagination into our shifts of consciousness and expanding our sense of family to both human and wild. For the identity of Americans, we are facing a welcome and necessary shift towards mindful reverence, active respect, and intentional renewal of our remaining open public spaces.

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