Ambiguity and the non human

Initially, this session was intended to allow us to reflect on the concepts of uncertainty and ambiguity. We began by reflecting on the concept of uncertainty, which seemed more manageable to us, and we quickly distinguished two attitudes toward uncertainty. The first, more classic, considers uncertainty as something that must be gotten rid of, as a problem that science must solve; and the second, more interesting, that sees uncertainty as a reality with which we must learn to live and that can redefine us.

However, little by little we realized that the concept that really interested us was that of ambiguities. Ambiguity allows us to enter a universe in which much remains to be defined, or even, which accepts that defining (and setting boundaries) is not necessary. Ambiguity allows us to think of opposites as processes that can coincide, it allows us to affirm that a practice can have multiple meanings, it frees us from the imperative of coherence. Ambiguity allows us to inhabit territories such as the marshes, it allows us to narrate without specifying whether we are talking about humans or non-humans and it allows us to access the non-human as part of a relationship in which we also participate.