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Thinking through television / by Lorenz Engell ; edited by and with an introduction by Markus Stauff ; translated by Anthony Enns (except chapters 4,5,10,12)

Engell, Lorenz, 1959- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Stauff, Markus, 1968- [Herausgeberin/-geber, Verfass. einer Einleitung] ; Enns, Anthony, ca. 20./21. Jh. [Übersetzung]

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019] [© 2019]

1 Online-Ressource (300 Seiten)

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Includes bibliographical references and index

In English

Erscheint auch als: Engell, Lorenz : Thinking through television. - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2019. - 302 pages (Druck-Ausgabe)

90-485-2562-4 (electronic book); 978-90-485-2562-1 (electronic book)

97819089647719 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 1433284392     

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CC 8400      Ähnliche Literatur

PN1992.55

302.23/45

Basisklassifikation: 05.36 (Fernsehen) <Kommunikationswissenschaft>

bisacsh: SOC 052000 ; bisacsh: PHI 034000 ; bisacsh: PER 010030

*Fernsehforschung ; Medienphilosophie      Zum Register

*Fernsehen ; Medientheorie      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Television -- Philosophy ; Mass media -- Philosophy

televisie ; PERFORMING ARTS ; Television ; History & Criticism ; Mass media ; Philosophy ; Television ; Philosophy

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

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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 synchronicity and succession, seriality and event, history and memory. Additionally, 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, by conceiving of itself, television offers a source of finally thinking television