Gestures / / Vilém Flusser ; translated by Nancy Ann Roth

• Autore: Flusser Vilém <1920-1991, >
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, Minnesota : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Disciplina: 153.6/9
• Soggetto topico: Body language; Gesture - Psychological aspects
• Persona (resp. second.): RothNancy Ann
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/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 tim
• Titolo autorizzato: Gestures
• ISBN: 1-4529-4188-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825647303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II