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"Chapter Two. Gestural Meaning: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Bill Viola, and the Primacy of Movement". Agency and Embodiment: Performing Gestures/Producing Culture, Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2009, pp. 55-92. https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054387-002

(2009). Chapter Two. Gestural Meaning: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Bill Viola, and the Primacy of Movement. In Agency and Embodiment: Performing Gestures/Producing Culture (pp. 55-92). Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054387-002

2009. Chapter Two. Gestural Meaning: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Bill Viola, and the Primacy of Movement. Agency and Embodiment: Performing Gestures/Producing Culture. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, pp. 55-92. https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054387-002

"Chapter Two. Gestural Meaning: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Bill Viola, and the Primacy of Movement" In Agency and Embodiment: Performing Gestures/Producing Culture, 55-92. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054387-002

Chapter Two. Gestural Meaning: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Bill Viola, and the Primacy of Movement. In: Agency and Embodiment: Performing Gestures/Producing Culture. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press; 2009. p.55-92. https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054387-002

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Frontmatter i
Contents vii
Introduction 1
Chapter One. The “Structuring” Body: Marcel Mauss and Bodily Techniques 18
Chapter Two. Gestural Meaning: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Bill Viola, and the Primacy of Movement 55
Chapter Three. Inscription and Embodiment: André Leroi-Gourhan and the Body as Tool 93
Chapter Four. Inscription as Performance: Henri Michaux and the Writing Body 130
Chapter Five. The Gestural Performative: Locating Agency in the Work of Judith Butler and Frantz Fanon 170
Conclusion: Illegible Graffiti 206
Notes 217
Acknowledgments 253
Index 255

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Chapters in this book

Frontmatter i
Contents vii
Introduction 1
Chapter One. The “Structuring” Body: Marcel Mauss and Bodily Techniques 18
Chapter Two. Gestural Meaning: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Bill Viola, and the Primacy of Movement 55
Chapter Three. Inscription and Embodiment: André Leroi-Gourhan and the Body as Tool 93
Chapter Four. Inscription as Performance: Henri Michaux and the Writing Body 130
Chapter Five. The Gestural Performative: Locating Agency in the Work of Judith Butler and Frantz Fanon 170
Conclusion: Illegible Graffiti 206
Notes 217
Acknowledgments 253
Index 255

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