First of Five Finite Future Lectures: Bayo Akomolafe, “Death is a Distraction: Responsibility at Posthuman Precipices” 9/25/24

What if it’s too late to avoid some kind of ecological catastrophe? Maybe it’s not, and we should be doing everything we can so that it isn’t. Still, what if it is? Shouldn’t we also be talking about that? What kind of a future do we want to create for ourselves on such a horizon? What might it mean to collapse well?

Bayo Akomolafe, the 2025 Hildegarde and Elbert Baker Visiting Scholar in the Humanities, presents “Death is a Distraction: Responsibility at Posthuman Precipices,” the first lecture in a series of free public lectures by internationally renowned scholars and public intellectuals made possible by the Henry Luce Foundation

Wednesday, September 25th at 6pm

Thwing Center, Excelsior Ballroom

11111 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, OH 44106

Free to the Public, no registration required

For more on Bayo Akomolafe visit: www.bayoakomolafe.net and www.emergencenetwork.org

For more on Finite Futures visit: Finite Futures | h.lab | Case Western Reserve University

Rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, Bayo Akomolafe is a father, life-partner, posthumanist thinker, essayist, poet, teacher, public intellectual. He is the author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak. He is the founder of the Emergence Network, a global initiative that seeks to convene communities in new ways in response to the civilizational challenges we face as a species, and he is host of the postactivist course/festival/event, “We Will Dance with Mountains.” Dr. Akomolafe currently lectures at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California, and has held several other appointments at prestigious institutions, including the Aspen Institute, UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute, the Schumacher Centre for New Economics, and the Council of an Uncertain Human Future. The recipient of several recent awards for his global contributions, he is also a member of the Club of Rome, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an ambassador for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance.