>'There are so many ways of doing things, even for weaving the net. It's accumulated knowledge because it passes through generations. It had to do with memory muscle, that's why it is a choreography.' - Carolina Caycedo Embodied and inherited knowledge that is sophisticated enough that keeps being done every day. The more tied these geo-choreographies are to place, the harder it is to maintain them if the people are forced to re-locate or move. >'If that river was not there, that evolution of the gesture would not have been possible. When the river is threatened and changes its form, when stops being a free-flowing river, becomes privatized, and becomes a stagnated dam or reservoir, there will be no more fish. When there's no more fish, then you stop fishing. First you stop going to the river, it makes you depressed and you don't want to see the river that way, so there's an emotional aspect of it; an identity aspect. Secondly you stop weaving the net and you stop eating the fish. Not just the river, but all of that embodied knowledge through generations is broken, the geo-choreography disappears, and that's the ultimate consequence of extractivism.' - Carolina Caycedo ## Sources: - [[Ostendorf-Rodriguez, Yasmine (2023) Let's Become Fungal]] - [[Toponymy]] - [[Extractivism]]