The Stakes of the Mobile (4:1–4): Grassmann’s Gestures of Space Itself
Chapter Four, “Grassmann’s Capture of the Extension: Geometry and Dialectic,” of Châtelet’s Figuring Space, is less a capture and more a kind of folding and unfolding of gesture so that space itself recovers its mobility.Grassmann’s insight is to show how not only do gestures not take place within a predetermined space, but through their cascading effects generate different spaces themselves.
"Gesture and Program": On self-obsolescence
Once the primary instrument of our humanization, is the hand's fate to become obsolete? Or, to state it in Agamben's still more dramatic fashion, are we losing our gestures altogether?
Thought is for moving
We have a brain for one reason, and one reason only, and that is to produce adaptable and complex movements.
Foolish fingers?
The Dialectic. ‘This is a dialectic and I’m going to explain it.’ Grip imaginary six centimetre object between thumb and forefinger.
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