ABSTRACT
Human beings, then, use a vast range of communicative modes. There is tactile communicating with its subtle immediacy of contact; the memory-holding evocations of the olfactory mode; the sonic experiences and resonances of the often underestimated auditory channel; and the multiplicity of visible actions, arts and artefacts. We share many of these basic resources with other animals and sometimes apply them in comparable ways. But humans have also fashioned them according to their own manners, drawing on them in an amazing variety of ways both nearby and at a distance: in the embodied actions of living human beings, and also, overlappingly, in human-made technologies and artefacts. These are, truly, the arts through which we maintain our human interconnectedness.
