Resilience

[rɪˈzɪl.jəns]

Related terms: Fragility, Probabilistic Language

Resilience is the ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change; a pliability and flexibility in adaptation to new circumstances. Resilience in the terrestrial is defined by one’s ability to be resilient with other entities, within one’s holobiont – to comprehend and integrate how entities interact with one another to sustain their own existence. »Resilience« refers to balance, in so far that there is an energy that sustains itself. It is reliant not on balance, but rather on imbalance. The question becomes, what are we resilient to? Etymologically, the word comes from the Latin resiliens, which means »to rebound«, »to recoil, and to jump or leap ‘back.’« In this context, the word has a new aspect of political connotation: jumping back to where, or to which old land?