Threads, themes, and artifacts.

Lines are the most concrete layer of this inquiry — specific threads, themes, practices, texts, and artifacts that illuminate the trajectories described elsewhere and serve as useful companions for navigating them. A line, in Ingold's sense, is a trace laid down through movement: it marks where something has been, and it invites further movement along its path.

The lines gathered here are not exhaustive and do not form a system. They are things encountered in the course of the inquiry that seem genuinely useful — that open something up, that connect across trajectories, that reward sustained attention. They will grow as the project does.

Foundational and emerging texts that the inquiry draws on and returns to. Each one will be accompanied by a short description of what it opens up and which trajectories it speaks to most directly.

• Andrew Pickering — Taking Other Worlds Seriously

Specific practices — contemplative, methodological, communal — that serve as useful vehicles for navigating the trajectories. These range from research practices to everyday ones, and will be developed as the iterations of the project unfold.

Existing projects, communities, and experiments in living that embody or illuminate one or more of the trajectories. These are the places where lines are being actively laid down — where the movements described in the trajectories are already taking form.

See the Trajectories page to understand the broader movements these lines speak to →