Posts tagged slowing down
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
TRICIA HERSEY on Rest as Resistance [ENCORE] /267
TRICIA HERSEY on Rest as Resistance [ENCORE] /267

With a historical analysis of slavery and plantation labor, Tricia Hersey of Nap Ministry prompts us, at this critical time, to consider what is stolen from those among us who cannot rest under white supremacy and capitalism.

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Cultural Strategy, The Cost of Capitalism, Spirituality Theology, Racial Equity Justice, Radical ImaginationFor The WildTricia Hersey, The Nap Ministry, rest, rest as resistance, rest is resistance, reparations, capitalism, white supremacy, womanism, afrofuturism, napping, plantation labor, grind culture, productivity, slavery, Jim Crow, ancestral wisdom, intuition, radical imagination, bell hooks, community care, self care, soul care, Audre Lorde, movement culture, embodiment, dreaming, slowing down, healing, Tricia, Hersey, Return Guest TriciaComment
TRICIA HERSEY on Rest as Resistance /185
TRICIA HERSEY on Rest as Resistance /185

With a historical analysis of slavery and plantation labor, Tricia’s work prompts us to consider what is stolen from those among us who cannot rest under capitalism, laying the groundwork for deep inquiry into the emergent possibilities of “DreamSpace.”

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The Cost of Capitalism, Radical Imagination, Racial Equity Justice, Spirituality TheologyFor The WildTricia Hersey, The Nap Ministry, rest, rest as resistance, rest is resistance, reparations, capitalism, white supremacy, womanism, afrofuturism, napping, plantation labor, grind culture, productivity, slavery, Jim Crow, ancestral wisdom, intuition, radical imagination, bell hooks, community care, self care, soul care, Audre Lorde, movement culture, embodiment, dreaming, slowing down, healing, Allyship Guide 1, Essential ListeningComment
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