{"id":99,"date":"2011-07-07T14:57:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T14:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2020-07-28T18:48:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T18:48:50","slug":"gestures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Gestures as Flusser defines them"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/em> problem per se.  The problem is that Flusser not only  departs from the “common language” understanding of the term, but also lends it a radical new depth and importance.  One might say he turns gesture into a philosophical category.  To most English speakers most of the time, “gestures” arguably refer to  fairly casual, throwaway movements, possibly empty or misleading with respect to the gesturer’s thoughts or feelings; but for Flusser, any kind of communication at all requires a movement of some kind “of the body or of a tool attached to the body”.  In short, gestures are absolutely necessary for conveying thoughts or feelings or instuctions or warnings or anything.  Such a difference leaves plenty of room for misunderstanding, and this is a problem.  But the problem can’t be solved by using a different English word.  Part of the argument, it seems, is that gestures are everywhere, and they are<\/em> serious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,182],"tags":[7,29,146],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gesture","category-translation","tag-flusser","tag-gestures","tag-phenomenology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2052,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/2052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}