13 Apr More on Cracks
Last fall, I hosted Cracks and Rhizomes—Can We Save Ourselves From Ourselves? in which I put Bayo Akomolafe in conversation with social therapeutic practitioners. Such a rich meandering they did together! You can listen to the entirety or to short teasers.
Bayo speaks a lot about cracks, and we should all be thankful that he does—each essay is a creative journey into the complexity of the politics hidden in everyday life. I was especially appreciative of his post today (April 13, 2026) on whether or not we can ever escape institutions.
Here’s an excerpt to get you pondering:
What feels important to say is that a crack is not an exit. It is not a door to the outside. It is not the moment when you finally break free of the institution and breathe the clean air of the alternative. A crack is the institution encountering its own material: the sedimented, paraterranean (the igneous, hidden life within sedimentation), molecular life that the institutional form was poured to cover and that the covering, at a specific site, under specific pressures, can no longer hold.
Read the whole essay, How to Leave an Institution
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