Description: Chris Ingraham shows that gestures of concern, such as sharing or liking a post on social media, are central to establishing the necessary conditions for larger social or political change because they help to build the affective communities that orient us to one another with an imaginable future in mind.
Review Quotes: "Chris Ingraham is a lively and engaging writer. While crafting beautiful prose he exhibits remarkable patience with trivial--often ephemeral--objects. Thus, he gives us ample opportunity to appreciate their public relevance and the role they play in helping to constitute public life in the internet age. And all of this he draws under the aegis of 'gestures of concern'--a gem of a concept that makes a significant contribution to rhetoric, political theory, and public sphere theory."--Ted Striphas, author of "The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control"