Thinking Through Television / / Lorenz Engell.
Media philosophy can only be found and revealed in media themselves. The essays collected in this volume thus approach television as a medium both of thought and of action in its own right. Through its specific forms and practices, television implements and reflects on aspects of time, such as synch...
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Televisual culture
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. On the Difficulties of Television Theory
- Part 1. From Transmission to Selectivity
- 2. Click, Select, Think: The Origin and Function of a Philosophical Apparatus
- 3. Television with Unknowns: Reflections on Experimental Television
- 4. The Tactile and the Index : From the Remote Control to the Handheld Computer
- Part 2. Televisual Events
- 5. Apollo TV: The Copernican Turn of the Gaze
- 6. Traps and Types: A Small Philosophy of the Television Scandal
- 7. Boredom and War: Television and the End of the Fun Society
- Part 3. History - Memory - Seriality
- 8. Narrative: Historiographic Technique and Cinematographic Spirit
- 9. Beyond History and Memory : Historiography and the Autobiography of Television
- 10. On Series
- 11. The Art of Television : Ludwig Wittgenstein's 'Family Resemblance' and the Media Aesthetics of the Television Series
- Part 4. Objects - Agency - Ontography
- 12. On Objects in Series: Clocks and Mad Men
- 13. Forensic Seriality: Remarks on CSI
- 14. Instant Replay: On the Media Philosophy of the Slow-Motion Replay
- Bibliography
- Publication Data
- About the Author
- Index