Ingold, Timothy2023-03-082023-03-082023-04-01Ingold, T 2023, 'On not knowing and paying attention : how to walk in a possible world', Irish Journal of Sociology, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 20-36. https://doi.org/10.1177/079160352210885460791-6035https://hdl.handle.net/2164/20250Open Access via the Sage R&P Agreement Acknowledgements I am most grateful to the organisers of the workshop Walking Conversations: The Art of Paying Attention, or, Non-Procedural Methodologies – Maggie O’Neill, Ger Mullally, Arpad Szakolczai, Deirdre de Bhailis, Maggie Breen, Elaine Ni Loinsigh and Brendan Tuohy – for the opportunity to present the keynote address. This text is composed of fragments, some of which are extracted from previously published works, most notably my books The Life of Lines (2015), Anthropology and/as Education (2018) and Imagining for Real (2022). Funding The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.171028892engattentiongenerationsknowledgepossibilitywisdomH Social SciencesB Philosophy. Psychology. ReligionHBJournal article10.1177/07916035221088546311