In order to make possible deeper engagements and better relationships we will need to reactivate capacities for sensing, relating, and imagining that have been deactivated within modernity.

The contemporary Nigerian philosopher Bayo Akomolafe is among those who suggest this is the case: it is in our seeking to escape the prison, he suggests, that the prison walls gain their form.95 If all we do is react to the dominant story, we reinforce its dominance. Perhaps the strategy itself – collision-course, expose-and-attack, hit-them-where-

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