Harvey Shands, psychologist, answers “no” to the question, “Is the mind in the brain?”
It’s in the whole body at once.

For in the beginning was the gesture… And the comic strip is the world of gesture, as the author of Mandrake the Magician knows very well.

The analogical relation between exterior posture and gesture and the interior movements and dispositions of the mind is the irreducible basis of drama. In the Wake this appears everywhere.

In the computer age, speech yields to macrocosmic gesticulation or the direct interface of total cultures. The silent movies began this move.

Our time has discovered that there is a language of Forms and Gestures – a language which has its own grammar and syntax…. Darwin’s concern was with the non-verbal attitudes and postures, noting that: “…with mankind hardly any expression is more general than a widely open mouth under the sense of astonishment.”

I am fascinated by your suggestion…of the possibility of a non-verbal language of macroscopic gesticulation, an interface of entire cultures.

All cultural situations are composed of an area of attention (figure) and a very much larger area of inattention (ground). The two are in a continual state of abrasive interplay, with an outline or boundary or interval between them that serves to define both simultaneously. For example, at a lecture attention will shift from the speaker's words to his gestures, to the hum of the lighting or street sounds, or to the feel of the chair or a memory or association or smell, each new figure alternately displacing the others into ground.

The age of the photograph has become the age of gesture and mime and dance , as no other age has ever been.

Chaplin chose only a small group of items: the costume of the middle-class nobody, the hidden gestures of the music-hall entertainer, the romantic outlook of Cyrano, the unlovable lover, and the foot positions of classical ballet.”

The analogical relation between exterior posture and gesture and the interior movements and dispositions of the mind is the irreducible basis of drama. In the Wake this appears everywhere.”

The printed page in rendering the language of the face and gesture illegible has also caused the abstract media of printed words to become the main bridge for the inter-awareness of spiritual and mental states.

Our time has discovered that there is a language of Forms and Gestures – a language which has its own grammar and syntax…. Darwin’s concern was with the non-verbal attitudes and postures, noting that: “…with mankind hardly any expression is more general than a widely open mouth under the sense of astonishment.”

Statement without syntax or verbalization was really statement by gesture, by mime, and by g_e_s_t_a_l_t_._ _This new dimension opened for human inspection by poets like Baudelaire and Rimbaud l_e_ _p_a_y_s_a_g_e_ _i_n_t_ér_i_e_u_r_,_ _or the countries of the mind.

The Chinese never had an alphabet, but their ideograms are pictorial translations of human gestures and relationships. As our press has become more pictorial our whole culture has become more sympathetic to Chinese art and expression. So that the very features of our culture which have intruded disruptively into the East have also brought us a basis for approaching their kind of communication.