Gestures : University of Minnesota Press : 9780816691289 : 0816691282 : 04 Jul 2014 : Throughout his career, the influential new media theorist Vilém 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 actions&;from speaking and painting to smoking and telephoning&;in 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. These essays, published here as a collection in English for the first time, were written over roughly a half century and reflect both an eclectic array of interests and a durable commitment to phenomenological thought. Defining gesture as &;a movement of the body or of a tool attached to the body for which there is no satisfactory causal explanation,&; Flusser moves around the topic from diverse poi