‘unruly gestures: seven cine-paragraphs on reading/writing practices in our post-digital condition’ is a performative essay for ‘Shifting Layers. New Perspectives in Media Archaeology Across Digital Media and Audiovisual Arts’ edited by Miriam De Rosa and Ludovica Fales (Mimesis International, 2016). In it we aspire to break down preconceptions about gestures of reading/writing that relate to their agency, media-specificity, (linear) historicity and humanism. Informed by Tristan Tzara’s cut-up techniques, where through the gesture of cutting the Dadaists tried to subvert established traditions of authorship, intentionality and linearity, this visual essay has been cut-up into seven semi-autonomous cine-paragraphs, accompanied by text.