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…how a norm actually materializes a body, how we might understand the materiality of the body to be not only invested with a norm, but in some sense animated by a norm, or contoured by a norm…

cultural legibility-legible to whom? what happens when you are illegible?  When can my actions be just for me without having to talk about how they are read? Is there any action done without the watchers watching?

seriality- repeat the gesture until it becomes authentic. the repeated gesture creates the authentic self? From whence the motivation for the gesture? The repeated gesture as force of habit unfurls the identity of the authentic self. Identitatem – sameness, identidem means over and over.  This brought me to the question of how our body betrays us before we say anything. and also to the question of how I may use gesture to invent the language my body speaks to others in. Repeat the gesture until it becomes authentic. am i always only just repeating a gesture?

A norm. I am material. norm invested in me. I am clothed-by a norm. What then is my naked body? My normcloak animates my body, but is it my body? I think no. but whenever am I naked gesturing? Never.

contour. The outline of any figure: the line separating the differently coloured parts of a design. Separating the skin from the invest(gar)ment.

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