On thinking out the box • Writings – Bayo Akomolafe
It’s obvious now: we can’t think outside the ‘box’. The dream to think outside the box is exactly how boxes think.
Maybe new possibilities are articulable when we deem the box worthy of encounter, worthy of touch. Maybe there’s delight and joy in feeling the box. And maybe when we touch the corrugated surfaces and grooves and depths of this so-calle... See more
Maybe new possibilities are articulable when we deem the box worthy of encounter, worthy of touch. Maybe there’s delight and joy in feeling the box. And maybe when we touch the corrugated surfaces and grooves and depths of this so-calle... See more
Bayo Akomolafe • Thinking outside the box • Writings – Bayo Akomolafe
Question on rejecting the status quo:
Is it time you start living outside the box?
There's a passage from Nassim Taleb's The Bed of Procrustes that hit me hard:
"They are born, then put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called 'work' in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the
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