Diagrams and Gestures

<p>Drawing a line and then another and another. Go back from the lines to the movements they capture and see gestures in them: not spatial displacements but modes of knowledge that pass through the exercise of the body. Discovering something new in a gesture: the line that contracts into a point or the point that expands into a zone perhaps sinking into a hole. Thus experiencing a diagram: a becoming other inscribed in the novelty of the gesture and in the changes of the forms it shapes. This and much more is discussed in the essays gathered in <i>Diagrams and Gestures</i>. Resulting from trans-disciplinary work between mathematicians philosophers linguists and semioticians the volume delivers an up-to-date account of the most valuable research on the connections between gesture and diagram. As one of the most important themes in contemporary thought the study of these connections poses a challenge for the future: to elaborate a theory that is equal to new and stimulating research methodologies. We call this theory a <i>philosophy of diagrammatic gestures.</i><br></p>