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Hong Qile live at Goethe-Institut Beijing
Hong Qile live at Goethe-Institut Beiji… 
Everything is Everything by Koki Tanaka
Everything is Everything by Koki Tanaka 
Dissecting Muybridge Part III: Limits of Chronophotography Excerpt
Dissecting Muybridge Part III: Limits o… 
Motion Studies
by Martin Murphy
355 blocks • about 7 hours ago

For most people, gesture refers to a primitive, non-intellectual expression of feeling, a rudimentary and not too important kind of communication. The very idea of humans pointing and waving parts of their bodies at each other, themselves, or their gods, appears atavistic, a return to a time before speech; to the origin of the species, to simian chatter or cavemen grunts, to modes of sociality and sensemaking overtaken by the development of language. In relation to the spoken word and the visual image, gesture is a poor, unsophisticated third; pre-rational and retrograde, belonging with certain ceremonies, rituals of the body, ancient dance practices, festivals, sacrifices to the gods; offering little to contemporary discourse beyond a minor anthropological and perhaps artistic interest.

But gesture, it seems, is being re-evaluated, re-cognized and in some sense, reclaimed. Thus, despite (and because of) its supposed primitivism, and for several motives, gesture is increasingly the object of attention and interest -- precisely in relation to the question of the 'human' -- from different directions within the contemporary, logos-driven scene. https://web.archive.org/web/20071223063457/http://www.wideopenwest.com/~brian_rotman/gesture.html

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Bibliographies - Jessica Rajko
Bibliographies - Jessica Rajko
In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective
In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on V…
Forsythe-Lines-Approaches-3-Knotting Exercise
Forsythe-Lines-Approaches-3-Knotting Ex… 
Take Five - Zbigniew Rybczynski (1972)
Take Five - Zbigniew Rybczynski (1972) 
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