Our Fingerprints Spiral Like Galaxies - Softcover

RedeR, Kimo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1587906732 ISBN 13: 9781587906732

Publisher: Regent Press, 2023

Synopsis

Our Fingerprints Spiral Like Galaxies is a quite literal "handbook," a single-focus anatomy guide made up of a series of freestanding micro-essays depicting the human hand as a cosmic map, an insignia of personal will, and a crossroads of bodily intake and output.

In this manual of manual actions, our hand is a poly-sensual organ that can utter, listen, sniff, and savor as well as grasp, carry, manipulate, and gesture. These pages treat the hand as a five-fingered pentagram and a microcosm of Selfhood, an engine whose movements form a vast repertoire of oracles, dances, and pantomimes. 

Aristotle saw our hand as the "instrument of instruments," and Kant regarded it as the foremost "window on the mind." Anaxagoras viewed this body part as the most supreme proof of our near-divinity and an epicenter of mortal significance. This book gladly partakes of such perspectives and envisions our hand's array of bones, muscles, and ligaments as a primal emblem radiating its meaning in every direction. 

About this title

About the Author

Kimo RedeR is an Associate Professor of English at the City University of New York, and received his PhD from UCLA in 2009. His writing explores the neuroscience of literacy, sensory overlaps between verbal meaning and oral flavor, occult aspects of the alphabet, and ecstatic, visionary states of language-use like graphomania and glossolalia. He is the author of A Maxim Map of Manhattan (Regent Press 2022), a non-linear micro-history made out of a collage of urban aphorisms. His precariously titled second book, The Tower of Babel Tipped on Its Side Turns into a Tunnel of Love (CW Books, 2023), is a series of philosophical meditations phrased as tongue-twisting, eardrum-tickling sound experiments. More academically, Professor RedeR's scholarship has appeared in such journals as Christianity and Literature, The Walt Whitman Quarterly, Semiotic Inquiry, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Jacket 2, and The Routledge Companion to Food and Literature. A text-artist and experimental poet as well, his current projects include a volume of "rogue linguistics" posing its proposals as an interlinked set of jests and riddles.

Edition details

• Publisher: Regent Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1587906732
• ISBN 13: 9781587906732
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 114