Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Chapter One. The "Structuring" Body: Marcel Mauss and Bodily Techniques
Chapter Two. Gestural Meaning: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Bill Viola, and the Primacy of Movement
Chapter Three. Inscription and Embodiment: André Leroi-Gourhan and the Body as Tool
Chapter Four. Inscription as Performance: Henri Michaux and the Writing Body
Chapter Five. The Gestural Performative: Locating Agency in the Work of Judith Butler and Frantz Fanon
Conclusion: Illegible Graffiti
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index