Radical Non-Completion with Báyò Akómoláfé

About this episode

Prentis and Báyò explore themes of Blackness, radical non-completion, and the implications of AI in this engaging conversation.

Posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, author and our favorite trickster, Báyò Akómoláfé is on the podcast again. Prentis and Báyò get lost in this episode as they traverse Blackness, radical non-completion, AI, and the second fall of humanity. Check out Dr. Akómoláfé’s new book, Selah Follow Báyò on InstagramIf you enjoyed this episode, listen to Báyò’s first conversation with Prentis from the Finding Our Way podcast.Support the show The Becoming the People Podcast Team: Producers: ...

People in this episode

Host: Prentis Hemphill

Guest: Báyò Akómoláfé

Topics covered

• Blackness
• radical non-completion
• AI
• posthumanism
• humanity

Keywords

• Báyò Akómoláfé
• Prentis Hemphill
• radical non-completion
• AI
• posthumanism
• Blackness
• Selah

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Selah

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