Ritual Gesture
Apparently Flusser’s Gestures essays have not made such an impact on others as they have on me! Things are very quiet. But I return often, especially to the categories he suggests for a kind of...
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Translation as Close Reading
Translators differ from other readers in at least one way that matters, namely that they are obliged to not skip anything (apparently most readers do, regularly). In my first reading(s) of the book Gesten:...
Gestures as Flusser defines them
It seems to me perfectly fair to render the German word “Geste” as “gesture” in translating Flusser’s texts. It doesn’t seem to be a translation problem per se. The problem is that Flusser not only departs...