Written Words
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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....
The Wolf Tone
The Wolf Tone [Jiordi Rosales] The perceived howl is in fact, the sound of their absence – it is the sound of the frequencies to either side of where the wolf tone would have been, running into one another, suddenly with no one in between to separate them but a ghost....
What Climate Collapse Asks of Us
What Climate Colapse Asks of Us [Báyò Akómoláfé, Ph.D.] In this (very) long essay, Báyò Akómoláfé investigates the work and contributions of “postactivism” in our unique times by thinking about the nature of science and its products, climate change, the myriad...