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
composition of the ground and the knowledge we find there. In the
second part, Ingold argues that to study living lines, we must also
study the weather. To complement a linealogy that asks what is
common to walking, weaving, observing, singing, storytelling and
writing, he develops a meteorology that seeks the common
denominator of breath, time, mood, sound, memory, colour and the
sky. This denominator is the atmosphere. In the third part, Ingold
carries the line into the domain of human life. He shows that for
life to continue, the things we do must be framed within the lives
we undergo. In continually answering to one another, these lives
enact a principle of correspondence that is fundamentally social.
This compelling volume brings our thinking about the material world
refreshingly back to life. While anchored in anthropology, the book
ranges widely over an interdisciplinary terrain that includes
philosophy, geography, sociology, art and architecture.
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