A Transdisciplinary Manifesto: Nimi Wariboko

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

                                                                       A Transdisciplinary Manifesto

                                                                                 Nimi Wariboko

A transdisciplinary thinker  loves to unfold, refold, enfold, and energize past and present ideas and hopes in relation to the possibilities of  future human flourishing at the intersectionality of disciplines, the generative ground of present and not yet present knowledges, wrestling in  a contact zone of thought that is neither/nor, opposing binary opposition, oscillating between spheres of knowledge, the fragile, fleeting, and slippery para-site of erotic, new, refreshing insights and lights, the uncanny non-place that promises to birth the underivably new in history.

Their soul finds deep peace at this frontier, the edge of knowledge that is always approaching and withdrawing approach. They thank their audience for forbearance in walking and working with them in that unhomely space.

Nimi Wariboko, slightly edited selections from his Boston University faculty page and the acknowledgements pages of his The Split God.