Diachronic Perspectives on Embodiment and Technology: Gestures and Artefacts

Contents
Diachronic Perspectives on Embodiment and Technology: Gestures and Artefacts – An Introduction
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Playing with Arte(f)actors
	1 Dramaturgies of Arte(f)act(or)s: The Importance of Mimesis and Play in the Relation of Gestures to Artifacts
	2 Applying Callois’ Concepts of Play and Mimesis to Games We Play with Technological Artifacts
		2.1 Playing Together with SHIMON
		2.2 Millie: TwentyBillion Neurons Gesture Recognition Avatar Artefactors
		2.3 Holly Herndon and Her Human-Trained AI, Polyphonic “Baby”-Like Technology Spawn: We Are AI
		2.4 Strategic Dramaturgy of Antagonistic AI Reckoning and Argument Generation Technology: Argumenting Artefactors
	3 Outlook on Artefactor Research
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The Ineffability of Motion in Robotics
	1 Introduction
	2 An Overview of the Influence of Language on Cognition
	3 The Problem of Ineffability, or How Movement Resists Linguistic Coding
		3.1 What Is Ineffability?
		3.2 How the Problem of Ineffability Constrains Movement Generation on Robots
		3.3 Consequences on Our Way of Talking About Robots
	4 Conclusion
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Sophia the Robot as a Political Choreography to Advance Economic Interests: An Exercise in Political Phenomenology and Critical Performance-Oriented Philosophy of Technology
	1 Introduction: Sophia the Robot and Political Choreography as a Conceptual Instrument
	2 The Performance-Oriented Political Choreography of Sophia the Robot
	3 The Rise of the Social Robotics Market?
	4 Conclusion
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Gestures, Diagrams, and the Craft of Musical Composition
	1 Introduction
	2 A Pragmati(ci)st Conception of Gesture
		2.1 General Remarks
		2.2 Towards a Triadic Conception of Musical Gesture
	3 Gestures and Instruments
		3.1 The Victory of Symbolic Gestures
		3.2 Gestural Indices of a New Musical Continent
		3.3 Gestures in the (Re-)Search of (the Virtual) Music
	4 Gestures and Notations
		4.1 Symbolic Notations, or the Artifact for Storing Music
		4.2 An Artifact to Be Manipulated, or the Manufacture of Music
		4.3 Notation as an Allusive Device
	5 Concluding Remarks
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Describing Robot Gestures by Design and Agency: An Exploration with Dennett’s Stances
	1 Introduction
	2 Robot Gestures, Design and Agency
	3 Dennett’s Stances Applied to Entities and Their Genesis
	4 Gestures in the Generalised Stance Framework
	5 Unexpected Robot Gestures and Emerging Robot Agency
	6 Conclusion
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The Philosophy of Gesture and Technological Artefacts
	1 A Short Overview of the Philosophy of Gesture
	2 Technology as Gesture
	3 An App Allowing Blind People to Enjoy Museums
	4 Conclusion
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The Orchestration of Bodies and Artifacts in French Family Dinners
	1 Biases, Categorizations, and Continuities in Gesture Studies
		1.1 Conventional/Idiosyncratic Gestures
		1.2 Focus on the Hands
		1.3 Visual Perception
		1.4 Manipulative Versus Communicative Gestures
		1.5 A Continuum: Links Between Manipulative and Symbolic Gestures
		1.6 A Multimodal, Multisensory Approach to Interaction
	2 Approach, Context, and Method
		2.1 Theoretical Grounding
		2.2 Family Dinners
		2.3 Method
	3 Detailed Analyses of a Family Dinner Sequence
	4 Conclusion
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Towards an Ecology of Gesture: A Review (And Some Promising Paths)
	1 Introduction
	2 Ecological Approaches
	3 Future Directions
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Petrified Practice: Is There a Vernacular Choreography of Neanderthal Movements?
	1 Methodological Roots of an Archaeology of Ancient Behaviour
		1.1 General Scope: On the Role of Archaeology as an Interpreting Discipline
		1.2 On “Behavioural Archaeology”
	2 Reading the Traces of Ancient Practices
		2.1 Lower Scales of Practice: A Choreography of the Human Limbs
		2.2 Narrative Based on the chaîne opératoire Analysis of Object Buran-Kaya Lev. B1-2/B8/No.12
		2.3 Intermediate Scales of Practice: A Choreography of the Human Body
		2.4 Narrative Based on a Site Plan from Kabazi II, Level 7E, Crimea
		2.5 Large Scales of Practice: A Choreography of Human Groups
		2.6 Narrative Based on Comparing Contemporaneous, Neighbouring Sites in Crimea
	3 The Re-enactment of Ancient Practices
	4 Concluding Remarks: Practice as a Perspective
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The logos of techné: A Case for Technology as Interdisciplinary Anthropology
	1 Introduction
	2 Ontological Distinctions, Epistemological Consequences: The Primacy of Practices
		2.1 More Relations, More Problems?
		2.2 Technical Objects and Organisms
	3 Reinventing the Wheel: The Diachronic Aspect of Technology as Interdisciplinary Anthropology
	4 Conclusion – Technology as Interdisciplinary Anthropology Aims to Understand, Interpret and Invent Modes of Being Human
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