Justyna Janik

Of Chaos and Coalesce

Video Part II of "Any Part Can Be a Genesis"

“"This is how she understands it: life on this planet gets developed by some powerful force contained in every atom of organic matter. It’s a force there is no physical evidence of, for the time being... It’s a thing that consists in bursting open, thrusting forward, in constant going beyond what it is. That is the engine that drives changes, a blind and powerful energy. To ascribe goals or intentions to it is to misunderstand. Darwin read this energy as well as he could, but he still read it wrong. Competition shmompetition.... The longer and harder you look at the complex structures and connections in the biosystem, the stronger your hunch that all animate things cooperate in this growth and bursting, supporting one another. Living organisms give themselves to one another, permit one another to make use of them." (Olga Tokarczuk, "Flights")”