They say...
“A physical act is an act because it represents something, because this gesture is designed to make sense of something”. Vilèm Flusser.

“The act of flicking through a book’s pages:
It represents the freedom of letting chance play a role. I am talking about the act of flicking through pages. When you let pages of a book run freely through your fingers, it is in the hope of stopping by chance on something that will allow you to unravel, from a single piece that sticks out, the story of the book.”

Background
Vilèm Flusser (1920-1991) was a philosopher and a writer. He started a long "itinerancy" from Prague: first through Sao Paulo in 1940, where he wrote a good part of his oeuvre. His presence has contributed to the development of a hub of intellectuals and artists who came from all around the world to meet him. The publication of his books, Towards a philosophy of photography and The Universe of Technical Images (1985), quickly brought him international recognition. These books are now considered as part of the basis for modern thinking.