Status Updates From The Hand: How Its Use Shape...

nonverbal thought and nonintellectual speech woah woah!

ch 9:
this book just keeps making me fall in love with humans
"Jack and his family and friends invented their own alma mater"
"members of these self-constituting groups are particularly alert and responsive to the possibilities for unique, personal contributions from their friends"
i think what kathleen gibson means is a sort of immer zu werden niemals zu sein situation!
anyway. a warm and fuzzy feeling

re: sticks test: sounds like we're implying that improvisation is intelligence? which is a very pleasing and interesting idea to me

ch 9 graph 1 is so lit theory

got me going "awww :'))" over hands bro

i wonder if this left-right hand division of labor also affects the way we view human labor. like what work is considered important

on variability of handedness... making me think of how when i used to figure skate i preferred spinning to the left... but only for some spins? not all? idk

"perhaps the same is true of" this country...

i can't believe people know and can write this much about hands

"carrying their babies in their left arms, where the sound of the heart would soothe and quiet the infant" WOAH WOAH WOAHH WOAHHHH

regarding dexterity.. like yes but also why does the violin kind of work the opposite way..

"tools are very sensual things" is beautiful

WTF HE LOST HIS FINGERS

re: "unimaginable monotony" i wonder when anthropology and archaeology as fields of study came into being?? like is that why we feel we need to go so fast now, bc our sense of time makes us think our predecessors were evolving quickly

the uncomplementary and primitive skillet! why is left handedness bad anyway?

something about hand and self and subject and object. ?? starting to sound like we're repeating ourselves also

something something religion and perfection and hand. like do u believe u are flawless

and thumbs ups mean...?

thinking of this in relation to the annabelle dinda song

gentleness to a horse and violence (?) within his own life!

is david ok

"getting better means increasing the repertoire of things that you do when something goes wrong" yeah ... this is not about juggling alone

you can't just jump from dorsal ventral systems to circus wtf

me eating dinner in the bell tower after the critical mass concert

"Dreaming about the circus was in fact just another way for a young boy to dream about the parents he wanted to be with" it really is always about the people we love and miss

juggling can be compared to what now

juggling doesn't accomplish anything WOAH OKAY FASCINATING