Entanglement, as explained by Tim Ingold is everything that connect the characters of a story with the world they live in and all the other elements present in it. For Ingold, the being inside a story don’t only move to one point to another like a line, without interacting with the other elements, but instead multiple pathways are built in the environment which surrounds the ‘organism’. This environment where the relationships between the story characters and world develop cannot be set free, but it must be contained so that it can be more easily controlled.

The tangle created by this method can be considered the texture of the world which being inhabit and make it grow and like Ingold says, as an ‘ever-evolving weave’.

For me, entanglement is as was written by Tim Ingold, but also it has to do with the creation of cause and effect events. I think the worlds that we create in stories are not so different from our real life, all the things here as in there, have a cause and a sequent effect which creates not only an entanglement, but also a chain of other events which then entangle with everything else.

Things we use everyday influence the world around us and create various entanglements and get entangled in other things every day.  The thing I decided to use for this assignment is coffee.

Coffee is something quite common in almost everyone’s life and even if we might not realise it, it plays a big part in the mood with which we live our daily routines. For some people coffee may be necessary to be more productive for university or work, for others it might be a way to relax and unplug for a few moments. This unquestionably influences our ‘story’ and can lead to different outcomes during the day.  Coffee does not only affect our personal life, but also the world we live in and the people around us. For instance, the cup of coffee in which you drank might not be safe for the environment if not disposed correctly, and so it can lead to major or small problems in it. Or maybe the action of you just standing in the queue before someone else, could lead to him or her being late for an appointment, which could have not happened if you were not there.

The stories each one of us live can be considered the organism Tim Ingold talks about in his essay, and the world we inhabit can be considered the environment that surrounds us.