Bayo Akomolafe

Bayo Akomolafe is the speaker in Bayo Akomolafe: The Untimely, a Long Now talk on The Untimely, clock time, colonial discipline, disability, ancestry, and attention. The source presents him as developing an incomplete theory rather than delivering a settled doctrine.

His role in the wiki is to add a decolonial and Black-studies challenge to the Long Now branch. Where other Long Now sources emphasize Civilizational Optionality, Informed Optimism, Ocean Memory, institutional design, or Neural Geometry, Akomolafe asks how modern time itself creates urgency, mastery, progress, and sanctioned forms of attention.

Key Claims

• The task is not simply to invent alternative clocks, because alternatives can preserve the same logic of mastery.
• The Untimely names excess, residue, cracks, and unknown tasks already produced inside modern time.
• Stories, grief, the body, disability, myth, and fugitive history can be philosophical evidence rather than ornamental examples.

Connections

• Long Now - host context for the talk.
• Yoruba Twin Cosmology, Eshu, and Ancestrality - cultural and mythic resources in the argument.
• Colonial Temporal Discipline and Fugitive Temporality - political-historical frame built from the Black Atlantic, plantation clocks, and fugitive space.
• Autistic Time and Attention As Weather - practical and perceptual challenges to modern time.