(R)evolutionary Training

Nana Francisca Schottländer

This is species (re)-evolutionary training.
By training our ability to attune our bodies to sense and respond, we develop our response-ability. We store new forms of knowing and other ways of being-with all that is here with us in the fleshy archives of our bodies. These experiences and embodied realizations form part of the continuous evolution of our own cultural-natural bodies and the interconnections between them, shaping our local and global collective body/ies.

 

By letting these experiences, realizations, and ways of knowing resonate into our flesh, we transmit and share them with other bodies, human and more, through our reverberating, resonant encounters. Thus, our species will evolve in intra-active exchanges that reshape our ways of being in and with the world, and this will travel on as genetic imprints passed onto future generations.

 

The entry point into this training is anytime, anywhere. We train our abilities to enter resonant, reciprocal encounters and exchanges with that which is right here, right now, against all (capitalistic) odds that tell us that the right time/way/place is always sometime/someplace/somehow different, that it is something we must earn through our commitment to the production/consumption/growth/optimization wheel.
But even within these structures, staying with what is right here, right now, inside, outside, can be an entry point to a tangent of awareness and sensuous recalibration that breaks this cycle and opens a different trajectory.

 

The training is humble, ongoing, curious, and deeply revolutionary.
It prepares us for another world, which we already encounter and create as we train for it.
Do not underestimate the deeply transformative potential of an intimate encounter with a cigarette butt, a cobblestone, a crack in the paint, and the resonances from this, traveling on through the individual and collective flesh of the world.