delineations

Quadrupedalism 

‍Quadrupedalism is a form of terrestrial locomotion where a tetrapod animal uses all four limbs to bear weight, walk, and run. (google) 

Human beings practicing Quadrupedalism engage in an initiative to remember their planetary pasts, with a physical condition of moving with the face closer to the ground and the back exposed to the sky and sun. The proximity to the legs, feet, sexual and internal organs and intestines, combined with the amplified sensation of the function of the lungs creates a naif, intimate “self-folding”, that has been compared with the activity of navel-staring. Arguably bypassing a state of self indulgence through imitation of animal reality, the intimacy with themselves is generated precisely, through a process of species estrangement and the resulting amplified experience of the bearing of one’s own body. Quadrupedalism has been interpreted as a process of hopeful re-situating through strategic disorientation. As the human body’s dominant navigation faculties, the eyes, are actively restraint from perspective and overview, human beings, practicing quadrupedalism, usually seek for a physical experience of the re-negotiation of domestic hierarchies. Practitioners have been further expressed feelings of relief and nostalgic dwelling, describing the achieved state within exercising as moments to remember, where the species could have evolved to otherwise. The intrinsic potential of this “otherwise” has become particular desirable for practitioners to sense, in the face of human made crisis and devastation.

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