ISBN:
9780415576857
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (185 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Life of Lines
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
To live, every being must put out a line, and in life these lines tangle with one another. This book is a study of the life of lines. Following on from Tim Ingold's groundbreaking work Lines: A Brief History, it offers a wholly original series of meditations on life, ground, weather, walking, imagination and what it means to be human.In the first part, Ingold argues that a world of life is woven from knots, and not built from blocks as commonly thought. He shows how the principle of knotting underwrites both the way things join with one another, in walls, buildings and bodies, and the composit
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Part I: Knotting ; 1. Line and blob; 2. Octopuses and anemones; 3. A world without objects; 4. Materials, gesture, sense and sentiment; 5. Of knots and joints; 6. Wall; 7. The mountain and the skyscraper; 8. Ground; 9. Surface; 10. Knowledge; Part II: Weathering; 11. Whirlwind; 12. Footprints along the path; 13. Wind-walking; 14. Weather-world; 15. Atmosphere; 16. Ballooning in smooth space; 17. Coiling over; 18. Under the sky; 19. Seeing with sunbeams; 20. Line and colour; 21. Line and sound
Description / Table of Contents:
Part III: Humaning22. To human is a verb; 23. Anthropogenesis; 24. Doing, undergoing; 25. The maze and the labyrinth; 26. Education and attention; 27. Submission leads, mastery follows; 28. A life; 29. In-between; 30. The correspondence of lines; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
