Gestures / Vilém Flusser ; translated by Nancy Ann Roth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flusser, Vilém, 1920-1991, author.

Contributor:

Roth, Nancy Ann, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Body language.

Gesture--Psychological aspects.

Gesture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Throughout his career, the influential new media theorist Vilém Flusser kept the idea of gesture in mind: that people express their being in the world through a sweeping range of movements. He reconsiders familiar actions-from speaking and painting to smoking and telephoning-in terms of particular movement, opening a surprising new perspective on the ways we share and preserve meaning. A gesture may or may not be linked to specialized apparatus, though its form crucially affects the person who makes it. These essays, published here as a collection in English for the first tim

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Translator's Preface; Gesture and Affect: The Practice of a Phenomenology of Gestures; Beyond Machines (but Still within the Phenomenology of Gestures); The Gesture of Writing; The Gesture of Speaking; The Gesture of Making; The Gesture of Loving; The Gesture of Destroying; The Gesture of Painting; The Gesture of Photographing; The Gesture of Filming; The Gesture of Turning a Mask Around; The Gesture of Planting; The Gesture of Shaving; The Gesture of Listening to Music; The Gesture of Smoking a Pipe; The Gesture of Telephoning; The Gesture of Video; The Gesture of Searching

Appendix: Toward a General Theory of GesturesTranslator's Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4529-4188-2

OCLC:

881183394