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E-book Metagestures
his introduction is a mediated gesture, in medias res, designed to help you, dear reader, become better acquainted with the writings that comprise this book; how they originated, and what they are attempting to achieve. I cannot see your facial expres-sion while I am doing the introducing, so I do not have a sense of whether my gesture is capturing your attention. Perhaps it is boring you, or having some other effect that I did not even an-ticipate. (Perhaps you have already thrown the book out a win-dow, starting a chain of events that will require further gestures from you in future, to avoid a law suit.) And because I cannot get a real-time “read” on the facility of my gesture, I have to put my faith in these ink-dried words to perform the magical al-chemy described below. This gesture thus comes with a subtex-tual incantation: a spell encouraging a greater familiarity with the project, and thus—hopefully—a sympathetic orientation towards it. All gestures hover somewhere between an action and an in-tention: not as fully realized or instrumental as the former, but nor as inchoate or tentative as the latter.
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