Written Words
[articles, essays, stories]
A politics of the third way
[Báyò Akómoláfé, Ph.D.]
We do not act upon the world.
We are the world in its unspeakable tensions, contradictions, experimentations, creativities, and messy alchemies.
It is not left to us to save the day.
Still, here
Still, here [Fabrice Oliver Dubosc] Fabrice Olivier Dubosc – a part of the ten Visionary Council – shares meandering reflections on the fugitive being of relation in S. Katugampala’s 2023 film, Still Here, weaving in thoughts from Báyò Akómoláfé, Erin Manning,...
Grounding VUNJA: Fieldnotes from my Journey to the Old ‘New World’
Vunja! [ten artifacts] Imagine other possibilities of being alive! Imagine ruptures and openings in spaces of suffering. Imagine other shapes and genres of being human. Imagine other futures! Vunja means rupture or breakage and also colloquially denotes ‘dance’ in...
Black lives matter, But to whom?
Black lives matter, But to whom? [Báyò Akómoláfé, Ph.D.] Why We Need a Politics of Exile in a Time of Troubling StucknessWe're thrilled to share an extraordinary new work from our Global Senior Fellow, Báyò Akómoláfé. In many ways, Báyò's piece defies any...
What I Mean By Postactivism
What I Mean By Postactivism [Báyò Akómoláfé, Ph.D.] What am I talking about when I talk about "postactivism"?Postactivism, the concept that informs my notion of making sanctuary, is a matter of irruptions and eruptions, breakthroughs, cracks, flashes, fissures,...
Onto-fugitivity: Grounding Sanctuary in the Cracks
Onto-fugitivity: Grounding Sanctuary in the Cracks [Fabrice Oliver Dubosc] Fabrice Olivier Dubosc – a part of the ten Visionary Council – writes about fugitive sanctuary “at a standstill” and how this “generative incapacitation” dances open a portal out of...
Transmaterialities
Transmaterialities Trans*/Matter/Realities and Queer Political Imaginings [Karen Barad, Ph.D.] The point is not to make trans or queer into universal features and dilute their subversive potentials. The point is to make plain the undoing of universality, the...
Erring the Pathways
Erring the Pathways [Erin Manning, Ph.D.] Dr. Erin Manning – a part of the ten Visionary Council – shares a response to Báyò Akómoláfé’s article, Black Lives Matter, But to whom? In the erring, there is never a denial of origins, but there is a question of...
The Meaning of Prophecy is to Look Again
The Meaning of Prophecy is to Look Again [Báyò Akómoláfé, Ph.D.] The work of prophecy is to look again, to scavenge the mushy surfaces of celestial-mundane collisions for rare ways of speaking, seeing, and politicking. What will we find when we look, when we...
The Allegory of the Pit: Or the Irony of Victory
The Allegory of the Pit:Or the Irony of Victory [Báyò Akómoláfé, Ph.D.] Plato simply couldn’t bring himself to trust our error-prone, undependable, and unfiltered biases and opinions to tackle the sublime questions regarding meaning, justice, truth and beauty....