Lorenz Engell

Thinking Through Television

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection explores television as both a medium of thought and action with its own philosophical dimensions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 619g
• ISBN-13: 9789089647719
• ISBN-10: 9089647716
• Artikelnr.: 58314725

Autorenporträt

Lorenz Engell is Bauhaus Professor for Media Philosophy in Weimar. Since 2008, he is co-director of the research center IKKM at Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar. His areas of research are media philosophy, media anthropology, operative ontologies, and film and television studies. His current research projects focus on the philosophy of the diorama, on media ontographies, and on emergence and immersion.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: On Television and Media Philosophy in the Work of Lorenz Engell
Markus Stauff 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 Hand-Held 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 Repla, Bibliography, Publication Data, Index.