Browsing by Author "Ingold, Tim"

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    Ice and concrete : solid fluids of environmental change
    (2018) Simonetti, Cristián; Ingold, Tim
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    Introducing Solid Fluids
    (SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2021) Ingold, Tim; Simonetti, Cristian
    This issue opens an inquiry into the tension between solidity and fluidity. This tension is ingrained in the Western intellectual tradition and informs theoretical debates across the sciences and humanities. In physics, solid is one phase of matter, alongside liquid, gas and plasma. This, however, assumes all matter to be particulate. Reversing the relation between statics and dynamics, we argue to the contrary, that matter exists as continuous flux. It is both solid and fluid. What difference would it make were we to start from our inescapable participation in a world of solid fluids? Is solid fluidity a condition of being in the midst of things, or of intermediacy on a solid-fluid continuum? Does the world appear fluid in the process of its formation, but solid when you look back on things already formed? Here we open new paths for theorizing matter and meaning at a time of ecological crisis.
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    Surfaces. Transformations of Earth, Bodies and Materials.
    (Routledge, 2020) Anusas, Mike; Simonetti Vicuña, Cristián Enrique; Ingold, Tim; Skewes, Juan Carlos; Guerra Debbie; Mattheeuws, Christel; Tjitske Kalshoven, Petra; Lucas, Ray; Chatterjee, Anuradha; Were, Graeme; Arantes, Lydia María; Küchler, Susanne; Anusas, Mike; Simonetti Vicuña, Cristián Enrique
    In attending to surfaces, as they wrap, layer and grow within sentient bodies, material formations and cosmological states, this volume presents a series of ten anthropological studies stretching across five continents and in observation of earthly practices of making, knowing, living and dying.Through theoretically reflecting on time spent with Aymara and Mapuche Andean cultures; the Malagasy people of Madagascar; craftspeople and designers across Europe and Oceania; amongst the architectures of Australia and South Korea and within the folds of books, screens, landscape and the sea, the anthropologists in this volume communicate diverse ways of considering, working with and knowing surfaces. Together, these writings advance a knowledge of the world which resists any definitive settlement of existential categories and rather seeks to know the world in its emergence and transformation, as entities grow, cohere, shift, dissolve, decay and are reborn through the contact and exchange of surfaces, persisting with varying time, power and effect.The book principally invites readers from anthropology, the creative arts and environmental studies, but also across the wider humanities and social sciences as well as those in neighbouring scientific fields of archaeology, biology, geography, geoscience, material science, neurology and psychology interested in the intersections of mind, body, materials and world.