Post-contemporary Interventions : Still Life in Real Time : Theory After Television.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dienst, Richard, Author.

Series:

Post-contemporary interventions Still life in real time

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television--Philosophy.

Television.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC, USA Duke University Press 19940401

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Television can be imagined in a number of ways: as a profuse flow of images, as a machine that produces new social relationships, as the last lingering gasp of Western metaphysical thinking, as a stuttering relay system of almost anonymous messages, as a fantastic construction of time. Richard Dienst engages each of these possibilities as he explores the challenge television has posed for contemporary theories of culture, technology, and media.Five theoretical projects provide Still Life in Real Time with its framework: the cultural studies tradition of Raymond Williams; Marxist political economy; Heideggerian existentialism; Derridean deconstruction; and a Deleuzian anatomy of images. Drawing lessons from television programs like Twin Peaks and Crime Story, television events like the Gulf War, and television personalities like Madonna, Dienst produces a remarkable range of insights on the character of the medium and on the theories that have been affected by it.From the earliest theorists who viewed television as a new metaphor for a global whole, a liberal technology empty of ideological or any other content, through those who saw it as a tool for consumption, making time a commodity, to those who sense television’s threat to being and its intimate relation to power, Dienst exposes the rich pattern of television’s influence on philosophy, and hence on the deepest levels of contemporary experience.A book of theory, Still Life in Real Time will compel the attention of all those with an interest in the nature of the ever present, ever shifting medium and its role in the thinking that marks our time.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PART I: TELEVISUAL FLOWS

ONE The Outbreak of Television

TWO Image/Machine/Image: Marx and Metaphor in Television Theory

PART II: COMMERCIAL BREAKS

THREE History, the Eternal Rerun: On Crime Story

FOUR Mondino, MTV, and the Laugh of Madonna

FIVE "Appetite and Satisfaction, a Golden Circle": Magic and Commerce in Twin Peaks

PART III Theoretical Images

SIX The Dangers of Being in a Televisual World: Heidegger and the Ontotechnological Question

SEVEN From Post Cards to Smart Bombs (and Back Again): Derrida and the Televisual Textual System

EIGHT Ineluctable Modalities of the Televisual

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Jan 2021)

ISBN:

9780822398219

0822398214

OCLC:

891395175