The agitation of the hand
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Leader, Darian (2016)
Hands: What we do with them – and why.
London: Hamish Hamilton.
ISBN 978-0-241-25654-1 pbk.
Pages vii + 120.
What is the agitation that inhabits the hand? This is the question that animates Darian Leader’s new book. His opening claim is that the continual human need to do something with one’s hands – exemplified in the preoccupation many of us have with electronic
devices – tells us something crucial about the nature of our embodied existence. What though?
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