Gestures - Brossura

Flusser, Vilem

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0816691282 ISBN 13: 9780816691289

Casa editrice: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 2014

Riassunto

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 century and reflect both an eclectic array of interests and a durable commitment to phenomenological thought. Defining gesture as &;a movement of the body or of a tool attached to the body for which there is no satisfactory causal explanation,&; Flusser moves around the topic from diverse points of view, angles, and distances: at times he zooms in on a modest, ordinary movement such as taking a photograph, shaving, or listening to music; at others, he pulls back to look at something as vast and varied as human &;making,&; embracing everything from the fashioning of simple tools to mass manufacturing. But whatever the gesture, Flusser analyzes it as the expression of a particular form of consciousness, that is, as a particular relationship between the world and the one who gestures.

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Informazioni sull'autore

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 writer and critic based in the UK. She previously translated Does Writing Have a Future? and Into the Universe of Technical Images.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Minnesota Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0816691282
• ISBN 13: 9780816691289
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 193
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