Throughout His Career, The Influential New Media Theorist Vilm Flusser Kept The Idea Of Gesture In Mind: That People Express Their Being In The World Through A Sweeping Range Of Movements. He Reconsiders Familiar Actionsfrom Speaking And Painting To Smoking And Telephoningin Terms Of Particular Movement, Opening A Surprising New Perspective On The Ways We Share And Preserve Meaning. A Gesture May Or May Not Be Linked To Specialized Apparatus, Though Its Form Crucially Affects The Person Who Makes It.these Essays, Published Here As A Collection In English For The First Time, Were Written Over Roughly A Half Century And Reflect Both An Eclectic Array Of Interests And A Durable Commitment To Phenomenological Thought.