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Description of  Gestures Ed 3

Throughout his career, the influential new media theorist Vilm 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 actionsfrom speaking and painting to smoking and telephoningin 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. Read more