Long Now Foundation 104d ago

This talk is co-presented by Ayin Press, publisher of Akomolafe's next book, Selah: A Báyò Akómoláfé Reader. Akomolafe will be hosted by Eden Pearlstein, cofounder of Ayin Press. Temporal droppings. Autistic meanderings that stray from linearity. Little sedimentations, little curls of temporality. Dense knots clogging the otherwise smooth materiality of time in its totalizing productions. Mischievous bebops lurking between the tick and the tock, upsetting the steady count. The clock's disability. These are some of the many ways Bayo Akomolafe wrestles to articulate what he calls the “untimely.” But perhaps his most pressing meaning can be discerned from the scandalous question he asks: “What if time misbehaves?” What if time - far from being a simple line that carries on into steady futures through mediating nows and exhausted pasts - careens off the highway, swirls into circuitous paths, and produces monstrous bodies that the imperial tick-tock cannot metabolize?