Gesture and Speech
This book makes human evolution look more exciting and provocative than I would have thought possible. In particular, it explains why, when we know that many, probably most plants and animals have evolved to...
Category: gesture
a meaningful human movement which may be empty or full
Art as Ritual
Flusser felt that the term “art”– in the West — was almost always understood either as “work”–intended to change the world—or as “communication”—intended to share something with another person. He thought both were wrong....
Gesture and Necessity
The Extending Gesture colloquium in Edinburgh this past weekend was brilliant! I think I’m gradually forming elements of the papers and discussion into coherent thoughts, usually within the context of a given word or phrase. The...
The Gesture of Writing
Flusser’s “The Gesture of Writing,” along with my notes about it, has just been published in New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Taylor and Francis) vol 9...