Description
This is the recording of a remarkable interview with Bayo Akomolafe as part of the events organised at the University of Edinburgh to mark Autism Awareness Month 2024.Bayo is one of the world’s most exciting post-humanist thinkers and public intellectuals of our time. Renowned as a philosopher, psychologist, professor, and poet, he has convened and drawn on the concepts of ‘postactivism’, ‘transraciality’ and ‘ontofugitivity’ to help us reimagine activism and social change and the global crises we face.
Neurodiversity is one of the concepts he has jigged, wrestled and slow-danced with and we are delighted that he visited Edinburgh before taking up his Centenary Fellowship at the University of Dundee. His visit was planned to help us compost our understandings and experiences of this and other categoricals and to prepare for new futures and possibilities.
This film captures a conversation between Bayo Akomolafe and Glen Cousquer to explore and discuss how we might sensitise ourselves to a different formulation of autism – not exclusively as a property of bodies, or as an identity, but as the excessiveness of normopathic tendencies that potentialises a decolonial cartography.This represents an encouragement to question and reject the normopathic maps that lead us to view people with autism as different, other, divergent and even “to be fixed” or “to be prayed for”. In exploring this territory, Bayo helps us explore and envision what may lie beyond awareness and acceptance …
| Period | 30 Mar 2024 |
|---|---|
| Event type | Other |
| Location | Edinburgh, United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |
Keywords
- Autism
- Autism Awareness
- Autism Acceptance
- Posthumanism
- Postactivism
