Tabla de Contenidos: “…The "structuring" body: Marcel Mauss and bodily techniques -- Gestural meaning: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Bill Viola, and the primacy of movement -- Inscription and embodiment: André Leroi-Gourhan and the body as tool -- Inscription as performance: Henri Michaux and the writing body -- The gestural performative: locating agency in the work of Judith Butler and Frantz Fanon -- Conclusion: illegible graffiti…”