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A good journey • Writings – Bayo Akomolafe

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A good journey. If you are looking for the path that’s most promising, look for the one with the dead end. Bayo Akomolafe. The unmapped one haunted by swirling ambiguities and moaning ghosts and Sphinxian riddles and yellow slit-eyed peering shadows.…

Romancing the stone: A visit to Luray Caverns • Writings – Bayo Akomolafe

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Romancing the stone: A visit to Luray Caverns.…

The real is nameless • Writings – Bayo Akomolafe

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The real is nameless. The real is nameless. Sublime. Bayo Akomolafe. In the ineffable moment of sunrise, in the first glimpse of a suckling child, in the contemplation of the bold and starry expanse of death, words slip away. The heart races. We gasp.…

Name the Colour, Blind the Eye: Reimagining Education • Writings – Bayo Akomolafe

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But one must ask whether these ‘good intentions’ have led to greater liberation or to greater enslavement for the ‘educated’ and the ‘developed’.…

Nothing really matters • Writings – Bayo Akomolafe

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Perhaps nihilism is a strange sort of caring. Bayo Akomolafe. Nothing matters. I think that nihilism might be a deeper form of caring than most might appreciate. An abundance of attachment instead of a critical loss of it.…

Free will versus determinism • Writings – Bayo Akomolafe

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These are the questions we in the profession hardly ever examined in public when we were taught to produce a CBT chart for clients, prepare a patient for electroconvulsive therapy, or administer some antipsychotic medication.…

Paraphilanthropy: Giving Money its Freedom Papers • Writings – Bayo Akomolafe

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But it is also ‘fake’ because it is a Trojan Horse of some kind, carrying within its metallic core the threads of something more eventful than mere compassion.…

On Trump: An Open Letter to the Brokenhearted • Writings – Bayo Akomolafe

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I will not attempt to pry open the cadaver of this moment – it is probably the case that no post-mortem analysis is good enough to assuage our feelings of shock.…

How the Real is more fascinating than we can think • Writings – Bayo Akomolafe

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My obvious enjoyment got me thinking about my prior commitments to cinematic depictions of the ‘real’. Being a nerd for so long, I’ve always been interested in superhero comics and movies.…

The banishment of immediacy • Writings – Bayo Akomolafe

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The ‘modern self’ is being conditioned to see only that which lies at a distance as real.…

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