Let Us Make Sanctuary
Posthuman Ecocriticism, Ecopsychology, and the End of Therapy
Recorded Tuesday 4 May 2021
With Bayo Akomolafe
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The Anthropocene is a cautionary Icarusian tale of soaring too close to the sun and reaping the planetary consequences of our hubris. Much has been written about the deleterious effects of mass industrialization and how unsustainable it is to think of “humans” as independent of their environments.
READ MORE...Unbothered human continuity is now impossible: we have been exposed, and we must now contend with a world that exceeds us.
In this talk, Bayo Akomolafe suggests that the very ontology of therapy and its subject has been irreparably altered as well. What does healing look like in a time when the human is called to question, when the self is diffracted and diasporic (unavailable for the couch), and when we now see ourselves as composite and contingent becoming in an open-ended world of mattering? Akomolafe suggests: let us make sanctuary. This talk is about what that might look like.
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FULL PROGRAMME
Introductions
Bayo Akomolafe Presentation
Q&A