Description for Gestures
Paperback. Translator(s): Roth, Nancy Ann. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 143 x 12. Weight in Grams: 250.
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 time, were written over roughly a half ... Read more
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Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
250g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816691289
SKU
V9780816691289
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About Vilém Flusser
Vilém Flusser (1920–1991) was born in Prague; emigrated to Brazil, where he taught philosophy and wrote a daily newspaper column; and later moved to France. Among his many books that have been translated into English are Does Writing Have a Future?, Into the Universe of Technical Images, and Writings, all from Minnesota. Nancy Ann Roth is an arts ... Read more
Reviews for Gestures
"Flusser transforms gesture to the level of metaphor, offering deep, sometimes metaphysical, interpretation of the human condition. Though it resists being put in a particular disciplinary niche, Gestures will surely become a standard for the many scholars who have already debated or acknowledged the value of Flusser’s claims."—CHOICE "Flusser’s book transcends the time in which it was written."—International Journal ... Read more