Pluralizing the Anthropocene: The Sustainability of Everything
Pluralizing the Anthropocene
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Schedule: 18:00 - 19:30
The session will be in English
Registration: Please write to Anabela Silva – a.silva@serralves.pt
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Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen)
Moderator: Gonçalo Santos (CIAS/ Sci-Tech Asia)
Sustainability
is about carrying life on, not about the achievement and maintenance of a
steady state. Moreover if it is to mean anything, it must be for everyone and
everything, and not for some to the exclusion of others. What kind of world,
then, has a place for everyone and everything, both now and into the indefinite
future? What does it mean for such a world to carry on? And how can we make it
happen? To answer these questions, I shall take a closer look at what we mean
by ‘everything’. I shall argue that it is not the sum total of minimally
existing entities, joined together into ever larger and more complex
structures, but a rather a fluid and heterogeneous plenum from within which
things emerge as its crumples and folds. How, then, does such an understanding
of everything affect our concept of sustainability?
Related
Tim Ingold is Professor Emeritus of Social
Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has carried out fieldwork among
Saami and Finnish people in Lapland, and has written on environment, technology
and social organisation in the circumpolar North, on animals in human society,
and on human ecology and evolutionary theory. His more recent work explores
environmental perception and skilled practice. Ingold’s current interests lie
on the interface between anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture. His
recent books include The Perception of the Environment (2000), Lines (2007),
Being Alive (2011), Making (2013), The Life of Lines (2015), Anthropology
and/as Education (2018), Anthropology: Why it Matters (2018) and
Correspondences (2020).