Bayo Akomolafe

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Bayo Akomolafe is globally recognized for his poetic, unconventional, counterintuitive take on global crisis, civic action and social change. 

INTERVIEW TOPIC:

WE ARE NOT AS ALONE AS WE MIGHT IMAGINE

 

In this interview, author and activist Bayo Akomolafe uncovers some of the fundamental ways that modernity conditions and produces loneliness. He suggests that

  • loneliness is a public and communal event

  • loneliness is what it feels like to turn away from the community of non-human and human presences and bonds that are already a part of us

  • there’s a yearning for connectivity, for meeting other bodies, to sidestep the prison houses that we have been confined in for so long by this modern project

  • our brokenness is necessary in order for connection and community to happen

LINKS:

Website: BayoAkomolafe.net

BIO:

Bayo Akomolafe (PhD) changes diapers, loves ghee dosas with coconut chutney, and is slowly learning how to play with his 4 year old daughter, Alethea. He is the grateful life-partner of Ijeoma, author of These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to my Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (North Atlantic Books, 2017), and Chief Curator of The Emergence Network – a postactivism project concerned with the material performativity of responsivity in precarious times.  

This video is one of 16 interviews comprising the Transforming Loneliness summit, which was curated and hosted by Laura Parker, MFT in early 2019. To view the other interviews in the series, please register here if you haven’t already.

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