{"id":421,"date":"2014-03-13T17:06:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T17:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?page_id=421"},"modified":"2019-02-21T18:04:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T18:04:29","slug":"gestures-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?page_id=421","title":{"rendered":"Flusser: Gestures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Gestures-Cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-553 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Gestures-Cover-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"Gestures Cover\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vilem Flusser,\u00a0<em>Gestures<\/em>, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014<\/p>\n<p>Flusser tentatively defined the word &#8220;gesture&#8221; as\u00a0\u201c&#8230;a movement of the body or of a tool\u00a0connected to the body for which there is no satisfactory causal explanation\u201d (<i>Gesten<\/i>, Bollmann 1991, 8). \u00a0The English title has lost a direct reference to phenomenology, but the book still reads like the record of a thinker whose mind thinks phenomenologically&#8211;and this with grace and imagination. \u00a0He looks at gestures as means of conveying \u00a0phenomenological\u00a0<i>intention,<\/i>\u00a0a term that phenomenologists use in describing consciousness. \u00a0By bracketing out &#8220;common sense&#8221; understandings of gestures, by refusing even, say, the &#8220;obvious&#8221; fact that people are separate from their tools, he begins to identify characteristic patterns of movement for painting, writing, photographing, etc., and to associate each with a particular kind of consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vilem Flusser,\u00a0Gestures, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014 Flusser tentatively defined the word &#8220;gesture&#8221; as\u00a0\u201c&#8230;a movement of the body or of a tool\u00a0connected to the body for which there is no satisfactory causal explanation\u201d&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":553,"parent":93,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-421","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421\/revisions\/434"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}