LECTURE "UNCERTAINTY AND POSSIBILITY" by Prof. Tim Ingold - 1
Channel: Vitor Oliveira Jorge
Date: 2022-02-26

ABSTRACT:
It is a condition of life that it continually exceeds itself. Yet the lament that the future is uncertain presents this excess as a deficit, as if there is still work to be done to determine where it will all finally lead. What if we were to face the future as a realm not of uncertainty but of possibility? Life is full of things we do, but is also a process we undergo. To lift the curse of uncertainty, and to restore a sense of possibility, we have to recast the relation between doing and undergoing. This, however, means thinking differently about generations, not as sliced into layers but as wound together in an intergenerational braid.
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Conferência organizada pela associação SOCIEDADE PORTUGUESA DE ANTROPOLOGIA E ETNOLOGIA (SPAE), Porto

Lecture organized by the association SOCIEDADE PORTUGUESA DE ANTROPOLOGIA E ETNOLOGIA  (SPAE), Porto

aberta, por zoom, no dia 19 de fevereiro de 2022

open to all, by zoom, 10th February 2022

Tim Ingold (Emeritus Professor, University of Aberdeen, Scotland)  is one of the most important anthropologists today, but at the same time a crucial critical thinker who covers a broad spectrum of questions concerning the totality of contemporary knowledge.
He has completely changed the field of anthropology, and he went well beyond that field.
SPAE wants to express its honor and its gratitude to the generosity of this great scholar and friend.