Chapter One Forming Hands: Surgery as Method in Paul Valéry

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction: Hands and Technology 1
5. Chapter One Forming Hands: Surgery as Method in Paul Valéry 22
6. Chapter Two Picturing Hands: Optical Tactility and New Vision 63
7. Chapter Three Conserving Hands: Malte’s Notebooks as Recording Devices 109
8. Chapter Four Moving Hands: Silent Film and Technologies of the Body 149
9. Conclusion: From Manipulation to Digitization 194
10. Image Credits 201
11. Bibliography 203
12. Index 217