Minimum age 16+
120 minutes
English spoken
Dutch & French surtitled
What do writing, walking and weaving have in common? Tim Ingold would answer that lines are the common thread of our history.
In 2011, he published his book Lines: A Brief History in which he depicts a world where everything is connected. Meticulously, he explains how history gradually changed direction and eventually moved towards the ideal of modernity: the straight line.
For the anthropologist, lines are part of our environment and structure our actions and our paths. Whether they appear in the form of a thread or a trace, whether they are enduring or ephemeral, physical or metaphorical, they are ubiquitous. Every movement, every trajectory becomes a moving, temporal line, an unprecedented language. In dialogue with anthropologist Perig Pitrou, he discusses his recent research around the question of how we live in this world.
After studying science at the University of Cambridge, Tim Ingold received his PhD in social anthropology in 1976. In his research, he sketched a portrait of the Sami - the native people of northeastern Finland - and examined their adaptations to the environment and social and political organisation.
With Tim Ingold, Citéphilo, le Phénix and NEXT take the next step in a cycle that was inaugurated in 2022 with Philippe Descola. In this series, researchers from different disciplines take the stage and renew our understanding of the relationship between the human world and non-human.
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