Title: Thinking through television /
Authors: Engell, Lorenz, 1959-; Stauff, Markus; Enns, Anthony
Year: 2019
Subjects: Television Philosophy; Television Philosophy
Abstract: Media philosophy can only be found and revealed in media themseves. 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 synchronicity and succession, seriality and event, history and memory. Addiotnally, television stages new forms of thinking causality and agency, subject-object relations, tactility, choice, and other founding concepts of everyday experience as well as of outstanding philosophical relevance. In the course of media evolution, television organizes the transition from the analogue to the digital. Last not least [sic], by conceiving of itself, television offers a source of finally thinking through television. -- Back cover
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.