Thinking Through Television

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.

• 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.