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- Metagestures
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- 2019
- Published by: Punctum Books
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"What kinds of knowledge and understandings of the world can be generated – and shared – when we use para-academic techniques and sensibilities to decode or respond to relatively orthodox intellectual objects? And what worlds might be possible if we practiced scholarly work from a place of collaboration and pleasure, as joyful fellow explorers?
In Metagestures, presented in a playful tête-bêche format, historian Carla Nappi and cultural theorist Dominic Pettman explore the use of fiction as a tool to write and think with works of theory. Taking Vilém Flusser’s Gestures as its point of inspiration and departure, Metagestures collects 16 pairs of short stories in which Pettman and Nappi make fictional worlds that animate and enliven each of the major gestures in Flusser’s book. Nappi and Pettman focus on Flusser’s mediations on the gestures of filming, planting, loving, smoking a pipe, turning a mask around, and much more, with their own creative explorations of each theme, in a gathering of short fictions that test, expand, and further the social scientific claims of the original text with new scenarios and occasions. Here, Flusser’s reflections on physical gesture serve as an inspiration for new ways of conceiving and conducting theory, and for thoughtful creative scholarly imagining, with and alongside one another."
Table of Contents
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- The Gesture of Writing
- pp. 25-28
- The Gesture of Writing
- pp. 29-34
- The Gesture of Speaking
- pp. 35-38
- The Gesture of Speaking
- pp. 39-42
- The Gesture of Making
- pp. 43-44
- The Gesture of Making
- pp. 45-52
- The Gesture of Destroying
- pp. 53-56
- The Gesture of Destroying
- pp. 57-62
- The Gesture of Painting
- pp. 63-66
- The Gesture of Painting
- pp. 67-72
- The Gesture of Photographing
- pp. 73-76
- The Gesture of Photographing
- pp. 77-84
- The Gesture of Filming
- pp. 85-88
- The Gesture of Filming
- pp. 89-96
- The Gesture of Turning a Mask Around
- pp. 97-100
- The Gesture of Turning a Mask Around
- pp. 101-110
- The Gesture of Planting
- pp. 111-114
- The Gesture of Planting
- pp. 115-120
- The Gesture of Shaving
- pp. 121-124
- The Gesture of Shaving
- pp. 125-130
- The Gesture of Listening to Music
- pp. 131-134
- The Gesture of Listening to Music
- pp. 135-142
- The Gesture of Smoking a Pipe
- pp. 143-146
- The Gesture of Smoking a Pipe
- pp. 147-150
- The Gesture of Telephoning
- pp. 151-154
- The Gesture of Telephoning
- pp. 155-160
- The Gesture of Video
- pp. 161-162
- The Gesture of Video
- pp. 163-170
- The Gesture of Searching
- pp. 171-174
- The Gesture of Searching
- pp. 175-182
- The Gesture of Loving
- pp. 183-192
- The Gesture of Loving
- pp. 193-232
Additional Information
ISBN
9781950192267
Related ISBN(s)
9781950192250
MARC Record
OCLC
1105799158
Pages
232
Launched on MUSE
2020-09-12
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-SA
Copyright
2019
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