#10 Báyò Akómoláfé: The monstrosity of grace. Awkwardness. Cracks. Posthumanism. Crisis. Sanctuary.

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Episode 10: Poet, philosopher and recovering psychologist Báyò Akómoláfé.

This episode was recorded on August 25th, 2026. Video version: https://youtu.be/cav9H5CCCfY Download mp3 on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/curiousonearth/10-bayo-akomolafe Spotify: [coming soon] Apple Podcasts: [coming soon] RSS: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:879419647/sounds.rss

00:00:00 Coming up in this episode… 00:00:23 Foreword 00:03:03 Introduction. 00:04:17 An awkward question. 00:08:10 Cringe. 00:12:15 Hand movement in rap music. 00:13:14 Henry's two dreams. 00:15:09 When winning is losing. 00:21:23 Slave ship 00:23:08 Modernity and worlds in crisis. 00:27:00 We are all cyborgian. 00:29:37 Too late to save the world from plastic. 00:31:38 Martin Luther King and Harry Belafonte. 00:33:40 What releases us from the trap of repetition is a crack. 00:34:14 Petrolium. 00:37:38 Báyò's daughter's antihumanism. 00:38:24 Apples are our overlords. 00:43:03 What is a decision? 00:49:01 Sovereignty. A good room on a slave ship. 00:56:21 Democracy is tired. 01:07:09 Accommodating the monster. 01:15:24 Antimodernity is modernity. 01:23:03 Cracks, paraontological. 01:27:58 Kintsukuroi. 01:29:34 Silence and noise. 01:39:36 Ruining your taste. 01:43:33 Sanctuaries and gargoyles. 01:48:22 Home.

Báyò's web page https://www.bayoakomolafe.net Báyò's instagram https://www.instagram.com/bayo.akomolafe Báyò's LinkedIn https://in.linkedin.com/in/bayoakomolafe Báyò's Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bayoakomolafeampersand The Emergence Network, founded by Báyò https://emergencenetwork.org

I Am Mother https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6292852 Alien vs Predator https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0370263 Paragogy https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bayoakomolafe_traditional-pedagogies-assume-the-learner-share-7383183184051564544-AzNY/ The energy trilogy by Antti Salminen ja Tere Vadén https://www.epressi.com/tiedotteet/politiikka/antti-salmisen-ja-tere-vadenin-quotenergiaquot-trilogia-yksissa-kansissa.html The first book of the energy trilogy in Finnish https://nuvatsia.terevaden.net/books/energy-and-experience/ The Devil Wears Prada https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458352 Báyòs essay "The children of the minotaur" https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/post/the-children-of-the-minotaur-democracy-belonging-at-the-end-of-the-world Melville's Benito Cereno https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19696859

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