“Throwing Gestures” examines the recent intensification of interest in gesture and
the entanglement between gesture, media, and politics. The gestures discussed pass from body to body and between states of
medial representation. Protest movements, the respective aesthetics specific to those movements, the perpetuation of socio-economic
crises over many decades, the plight of gig workers in precarious employment and mechanisms for the quantification of work
and leisure are some of the issues addressed.
Fourteen contributors from diverse fields ranging from visual
and performing arts, cultural studies, and cultural history, to media theory and political science, shed light on the many
aspects that comprise mediatized gestures today. Developed from independent approaches brought together through interdisciplinary
collaborations, “Throwing Gestures” combines conversational, artistic, and essayistic contributions with scientific articles.
Image and text are juxtaposed. Readers are invited to leaf through the collection or approach the volume as a flipbook.
