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This essay puts forward a theory of gesture in relationship to temporality. The essay explores gestures as ongoing body-jumping performances that have the potential to carry history in different directions, toward alternative futures and re-remembered pasts, with each re-irruptive singularity.

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  1. Department of Theater Arts and Performance Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

    Rebecca Schneider

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Correspondence to Rebecca Schneider .

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  1. Department of English and American Studies, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

    Heike Paul

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Schneider, R. (2019). Gesture. In: Paul, H. (eds) Critical Terms in Futures Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28987-4_23

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