- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Translator’s Preface
- Gesture and Affect
- Beyond Machines
- The Gesture of Writing
- The Gesture of Speaking
- The Gesture of Making
- The Gesture of Loving
- The Gesture of Destroying
- The Gesture of Painting
- The Gesture of Photographing
- The Gesture of Filming
- The Gesture of Turning a Mask Around
- The Gesture of Planting
- The Gesture of Shaving
- The Gesture of Listening to Music
- The Gesture of Smoking a Pipe
- The Gesture of Telephoning
- The Gesture of Video
- The Gesture of Searching
- Appendix
- Index
- [UNTITLED]
The Gesture of Searching
The Gesture of Searching
- Chapter:
- (p.147) The Gesture of Searching
- Source:
- Gestures
- Author(s):
Vilém Flusser
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
The essay announces a crisis in the way we conceptualize knowledge, and so in the ways we go about expanding it. The gesture of “research” has long been modeled as a “digging” for causes, for deep understanding; it is now giving way to a broad reaching for possibilities.
Keywords: Phenomenology, Consciousness, Gesture, Affect, Post-historical, Research, Theory and practice, freedom, science and art, subject and object
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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Translator’s Preface
- Gesture and Affect
- Beyond Machines
- The Gesture of Writing
- The Gesture of Speaking
- The Gesture of Making
- The Gesture of Loving
- The Gesture of Destroying
- The Gesture of Painting
- The Gesture of Photographing
- The Gesture of Filming
- The Gesture of Turning a Mask Around
- The Gesture of Planting
- The Gesture of Shaving
- The Gesture of Listening to Music
- The Gesture of Smoking a Pipe
- The Gesture of Telephoning
- The Gesture of Video
- The Gesture of Searching
- Appendix
- Index
- [UNTITLED]