Show threadOliver KnabeJul 4, 2025

This is not to advocate for apathy. It is to listen for a rhythm beneath action. A dissonant breath that says: slow down. Undo the rush. Question the prescription. Let the ache linger. Let the ambiguity speak. Let the silence hum its impossible tunes."

#BayoAkomolafe #Bayo #Akomolafe
#parapragmatism

https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/post/how-to-be-available-now-sidenotes-from-the-para-pragmatic

How to be available now: Sidenotes from the para-pragmatic • Writings – Bayo Akomolafe

As fires of urgency hiss across the globe, an exhausted moral machine, masquerading behind the ruins, may whisper a beguiling note: "just do something." Bayo Akomolafe writes from the side, in the cracks of the awkward, suggesting that the right thing to do in response to Gaza, to climate issues, to suffering, may not be how we are being asked to be available. He advances his thesis of para-pragmatism.

Oliver KnabeNov 3, 2024

When a society depends ever so fervently on spectacle, bombast, and scale to promulgate its thesis of choice, to announce itself free, it is very highly probable that the freedom it sells has become its chiefest means of control.

Bayo Akomolafe

#Akomolafe #bayoakomolafe

Oliver KnabeMar 13, 2024

Es gibt viele viele Interviews mit Bayo #Akomolafe im Web, aber nur ganz wenige auf Deutsch. Wer noch keine Gelegenheit hatte, dem Philosophen zu begegnen, hat hier die Chance. Ein Denken, das nicht nur oberflächlich anders ist.

"What if the way we respond to the crisis is part of the crisis?" #Postaktivismus #Posthumanismus #Bayoakomolafe
#Klimakrise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GGdhIiMEyA

Spiritualität: Ein Ausweg aus der Krisenspirale? | Sternstunde Philosophie | SRF Kultur

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Oliver KnabeJan 24, 2024

Good morning!
How would you explain what #nature is?

Here is what the Oxford English Dictionary says:

'The phenomena of the physical world collectively; esp. plants, animals, and other features and products of the earth itself, as opposed to humans.’

Satisfied?
Here is the definition Bayo #Akomolafe offers:

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Show threadOliver KnabeNov 21, 2023

Our aim is not to arrive at a specific truth. Our aim is not to reach consensus. Our aim is not to prove who's wrong and who's right. We are here to touch and be touched.

Some of us don't even know how to speak any longer because what to say is always going to be wrong from another body's perspective. But peace has never been premised on the algorithms of correctness.

Bayo #Akomolafe talking to
Sa’ed Atshan & Cecilie Surasky
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLIeoUmFE5I
#Gaza/ #Palestine #Israel

Across Lines: Grief. with Bayo Akomolafe, Professor Sa’ed Atshan, and Cecilie Surasky

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Oliver KnabeNov 21, 2023

This.

"We live in a world that is increasingly antagonistic to grieving - grieving [that] could disturb one's claim to citizenry, to productivity, to being proper, to being a proper self, and yet it feels like the world and the events at large are inviting us into a space of grieving and it feels our bodies want to do it, especially in a time when it feels politics isn't serving.
Bayo #Akomolafe

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLIeoUmFE5I
#Gaza/ #Palestine #Israel

Across Lines: Grief. with Bayo Akomolafe, Professor Sa’ed Atshan, and Cecilie Surasky

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Oliver KnabeSep 11, 2023
Die Vermutung, es lohne nicht, beim #Klimaschutz voranzugehen (#Gefangenendilemma), berücksichtigt nicht, dass glaubwürdige Beispiele Nachahmer:innen finden. Mich jedenfalls inspiriert das Tun anderer Menschen und regt mich selber zu Veränderung an. Ein plumpe Gleichung aufzumachen, welche Investition in Klimaschutz Staaten welchen internationalen "Wettbewerbsvorteil" bringt, springt zu kurz. Bayo #Akomolafe formuliert dazu: "What if the way we respond to the crisis ist part of the crisis."