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Thinking through television /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Engell, Lorenz, 1959- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
Colección:Schriften des Internationalen Kollegs für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie ; Bd. 36.
Televisual culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction / Stauff, Markus
  • 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