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April 8, 2023
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A Hundred Other Names for Autism
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Bayo Akomolafe
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April 7, 2023
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Can AI have wisdom?
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Bayo Akomolafe
Is there an anthropocentricity at work in the emphatic attribution of artificiality to new AI phenomena?
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April 7, 2023
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Regeneration and loss
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Bayo Akomolafe
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April 7, 2023
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Loss needs a new home
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Bayo Akomolafe
Books & Longform
During the initial weeks of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, I feverishly composed an ‘essay’. I intended to be brief, so my essay clocked 22,000 words - perhaps, then, the length of a small book. Refusing to reinscribe our fetishized human centrality in the goings-on around us,
‘I, Coronavirus’
reads as a cross between magical realism, speculative fabulation, Yoruba indigenous wisdoms, biology and neomaterialist feminist philosophy. At its heart is a playful thought experiment: beyond being a pathogen, what if the virus were an immigrant, an alien visitation, an archetypal force we’ve always known but do not know how to recognize?
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Tackling some of the world's most profound questions through the intimate lens of fatherhood, Bayo Akomolafe embarks on a journey of discovery as he maps the contours of the spaces between himself and his three-year-old daughter Alethea.These Wilds Beyond our Fences is a passionate attempt to make sense of our disconnection in a world where it is easy to feel untethered and lost. It is a father's search for meaning, for a place of belonging, and for reassurance that the world will embrace and support our children once we are gone. (North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA; 2017)
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“We Will Tell Our Own Story joins a growing number of Afrocentric books that are already revolutionizing the way Africans view themselves and their academies. The creation of a cadre of scholars devoted to truth, rigor, ancestrality, and values is a mark of a mature civilization; these authors are the necessary foundation for further growth.”
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Knowing anything is an exercise in loss
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Bayo Akomolafe
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Nigeria: How to Rig an Election
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Detached.
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Becoming airports
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The public is not a simple location: A confession
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Astray, Awkwardly: An Autistic Politics (Republished)
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Bayo Akomolafe
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Astray, Awkwardly: An Autistic Politics
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The Hidden Curriculum of Consent
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The Image and its Caricature
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Believe All Women! Dispatches from the Frontiers
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Say it with a 'head wobble'
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Putin, Ukraine, and 1945: The War Never Ended
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The invisible constituency of the slave ship
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The Gift of Being Mispronounced
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Looking-Away-At
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What I Mean By Postactivism
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Let’s Meet at the Crossroads
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It’s time: Let us make sanctuary
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I, Coronavirus. Mother. Monster. Activist.
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Coming Down to Earth
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Grounding VUNJA
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The Allegory of the Pit: Or the Irony of Victory
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The task is not to abandon identity politics
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What climate collapse asks of us
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Hum the Apple
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In the morning, you won’t find me here
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Coming into the Sanctuary
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Let us slow down: Acting in turbulent times
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How the Real is more fascinating than we can think
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Making Sanctuary: Hope, Companionship, Race and Emergence in the Anthropocene
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Grieving is how flowers bloom: an invitation
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On thinking out the box
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To be a proper self is to be beside oneself
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Yesterday, Alethea created the universe
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These wilds beyond our fences
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The Surprising Nobility of Shit
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Shootings in America: A Letter to New Questions
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2017: On turning the left cheek and contentment
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Humusities: A Short Description
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Our shock will not absolve us
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I want my skin to breathe
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How do we respond to crisis?
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Finding the Dark: Decolonizing Darkness
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Homo Icarus: The Depreciating Value of Whiteness and the Place of Healing
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Father to Son
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The edges in the middle: A story about ‘We Will Dance with Mountains’
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A Slower Urgency
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Entangled with the World
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Release the Kraken! Why we need monsters in these times of crises
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The ordinary is what the extraordinary wants to become
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How my prejudice redeemed me from believing I was essentially good
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An Irreverent List of Queer Resolutions for 2017
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The Scooby Doo Contingency
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On Trump: An Open Letter to the Brokenhearted
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The edges in the middle
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God was here and I did not know it
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A miracle is…
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The Burden of the New Story
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We stood on the rock
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We have met the monster, and it is us.
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I am writing a book. I will not be the same.
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Pagan insurgencies and Com-post Humusities
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Shit matters: Answering the call of compost in these times of exclusions
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Alethea’s Lesson: Queer Homecomings and the Quest for Community
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Name the Colour, Blind the Eye: Reimagining Education
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The Politics of Pokémon Go
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Killing Harambe, or how monsters are made
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Dear white people
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The Turning of the Whales
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Leadership as gift
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When I told my students to dance naked on a Vancouver street
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A plea for magic
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Bernie’s insurrection and the question of Hillary’s qualifications
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The dot on my forehead: how we understand the crisis is part of the crisis
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The politics of the pursuit of happiness
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Speaking in tongues (Or why the correct answer is no longer enough to solve our problems)
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Meeting the Inappropriate/d
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How I’m learning to trust in my failure
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Prologue for ‘The Parrot’s Training’ by Manish Jain
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The trouble with equality: feminism and the forgotten places of power
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To our ‘Dadas’
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This revolution will not be schooled
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What would a Mountain do? Activism in an Age of Entanglement
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They sang with a thousand tongues: The poetry of diversity
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The Phantoms of the Maze
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The Natural Life Cycle of Faith
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Towards a World Citizens’ Movement – Learning from the Grassroots
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A Parliament of Things
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Do our bodies matter?
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In the Thinnest of Places: Initiation as Empowerment for Civil Action
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An Oríkì for Our Time: Reflections on Activism, Change and Wonder
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The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible – Reviewed
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The Times are Urgent: Let’s Slow Down
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There are no slums in India
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You are not a ‘self’
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I am Madiba
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How I Lost My Way
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Turning to the Wilds
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Nigeria: The Poison is the Pot
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The Cinema House Effect
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We Will Tell Our Stories
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Those Bonfires of Taboo
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Your soul is strange
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Your life is an intergenerational project
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You do not need fixing
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You are wonderful now
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You are not normal
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You are home already
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