ABSTRACT
Contemporary society, to a great extent, is based on visuality and visual images. According to Christoph Wulf (2009), images have achieved a ubiquitous presence; they are everywhere (“Bilder haben eine ubiquitäre Präsenz erlangt”, cf. also the introduction by Kontopodis, Varvantakis & Wulf, 2017). This means that human sociability is constituted and organized by obeying the logic of images and of visuality, with a huge supremacy of perception of what is on the superficial, at the expense of everything that involves density, volume, depth, and weight. In turn all dimensions of corporality (gesture, presence, slowness, the kinesthetic complexity, multi-sensoriality) are losing ground in life and in contemporary interactions. Furthermore, the most complex operations involving the world of reading, do also lose because these require time and immersion in varying depths. Harry Pross (1990) with great precision called this ability to immerse and take time and give attention during reading lange Weile des Lesens; i.e., the slow languor of reading.
