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Flusser Vilém <1920-1991, > |
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Gestures / / Vilém Flusser ; translated by Nancy Ann Roth |
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Minneapolis, Minnesota : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Body language |
Gesture - Psychological aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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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 |
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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 |
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