How to Become Strange(r): As Fear Management

I just got invited to an amazing course: "We Will Dance With Mountains" (2023), based on Dr. Bayo Akomolafe's philosophy and spiritual activism. Akomolafe subtitles this course "Vunja" which is a Swahili word that marks the site of strange ruptures but then invites celebration and dance with/in those cracks" (a kind of "breakdance" of a whole other kind, he writes on his website). We certainly need in our activism, politics, education and general cultural malaise--a few more cracks, but I am not referring to those that are so destructive and unfettered but one's that are more conscious or at least they are sensitively picked-up as essential ruptures, breakages, where "the veneer of confidence" (certainty and bravado and chauvinism) is whacked hard!...Vunja is a political and spiritual technology for gathering together, for assembling things in a queer way, for performing research," writes Akomolafe on his website. Yes, bring it on. I am ready for such an adventure of learning from Akomolafe et al. re: this course/event. Wow!

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R.Michael Fisher July 16, 2023 at 8:49am

I just got invited to an amazing course: "We Will Dance With Mountains" (2023), based on Dr. Bayo Akomolafe's philosophy and spiritual activism. Akomolafe subtitles this course "Vunja" which is a Swahili word that marks the site of strange ruptures but then invites celebration and dance with/in those cracks" (a kind of "breakdance" of a whole other kind, he writes on his website). We certainly need in our activism, politics, education and general cultural malaise--a few more cracks, but I am not referring to those that are so destructive and unfettered but one's that are more conscious or at least they are sensitively picked-up as essential ruptures, breakages, where "the veneer of confidence" (certainty and bravado and chauvinism) is whacked hard!...Vunja is a political and spiritual technology for gathering together, for assembling things in a queer way, for performing research," writes Akomolafe on his website. Yes, bring it on. I am ready for such an adventure of learning from Akomolafe et al. re: this course/event. Wow!

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