The Emergence Network
Postactivist Practice
What if the way we respond to the crisis is part of the crisis?
The Emergence Network is a research inquiry into the otherwise, a constellation of humans and nonhumans working together trans-locally to curate projects, rituals, conversations and events that nurture senses of the otherwise via practices that trouble the traditional boundaries of agency and possibility.
TEN’s Organism
[the body]
Postactivism
[crossroads library]
How to get Involved
[fugitive assemblage]
Play
[translocal agenda]
Chief Dreamer
Báyò Akómoláfé (Ph.D.) is Chief Dreamer of The Emergence Network. Author, lecturer, speaker, father, and rogue planet saved by the gravitational pull of his wife Ej, Báyò hopes to inspire a diffractive network of sharing within an ethos of new responsivity – a slowing down, an ethics of entanglement, an activism of inquiry, a ‘politics of surprise’.
The Emergence Network responds to a felt need for ‘alternative’ modes of engaging with our more troubling realities.
What we offer are ways of diving into the cracks in our skins, processes that allow us notice that there are other items on the menu. That there are other places of power.
The TEN Valley
Cultivating a Commonwealth of Bewilderment
Here in the TEN Valley we share, celebrate, tell stories, build altars, and bless the seeds and threads of these strange end-times.
This ongoing Commonwealth of Bewilderment continuously nurtures and tends the ground and feral seeds, weaving nests of inquiry, and gathering sacred bundles of disruptive stories. Here in the Valley, we swaddle unlearning pods, with no fixed itinerary. These are the crossroads to undomesticate the Anthropocene, contributing and co-creating to the postactivist lore.
“Making sanctuary is my theory of emancipation that takes bodies, flows, fields, assemblages, networks, intensities, forces, maps, apparatuses, principalities/powers, territories, and terrains into consideration. It takes off from a realization that we cannot think through the primacy and stability of “the human” anymore.
That we are not in charge. Not ahead of the curve.”
BAYO AKOMOLAFE
from the organism
ten kinships
Joint the TEN Commonwealth of Bewilderment to craft a cartography to unlearn modernity.
From the crossroads library
Archive of past projects
Want to nurture inquiry?
Apply to steward and nurture an animistic community, swadling a unlearning cycle.
from the fugitive assemblage
Ongoing Inquiry
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from the translocal agenda
Virtual and local postactivist practice
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