Gestures from João Machado on Vimeo.
Via swissmiss (in the comments to an earlier post), what we do with our hands when we read books.
Gestures from João Machado on Vimeo.
Via swissmiss (in the comments to an earlier post), what we do with our hands when we read books.Commentary on technologies of reading, writing, research, and, generally, knowledge. As these technologies change and develop, what do we lose, what do we gain, what is (fundamentally or trivially) altered? And, not least, what's fun?
Alan Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program of Baylor University and the author, most recently, of How to Think and The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography. His homepage is here.

Watch video of Alan Jacobs discussing his book in a Washington, D.C. lecture in June 2011.
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