The Switch Image: Television Philosophy
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The Switch Image: Television Philosophy. Number of Pages: 392. Publication Date: 2021-05-20. Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE ) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title: The Switch Image: Television Philosophy ISBN13: 9781501349287 ISBN10: 1501349287 Author: Engell, Lorenz (Author) Description: Television Is The Most Powerful System Of Images In The Late 20Th And Early 21St Centuries Nonetheless, Tv Has Attained Only Little Philosophical Attention So Far, Especially Compared To Other (Visual) Media Such As Film This Book Looks At Tv As What Happens On The Screen And Beyond It; Which Is Mainly The Operation Of Switching Images It Therefore Proposes A New Definition Of Tv As The First Picture That Can Be Switched On, Off, And Over, Which Stresses That Tv Is More Tactile Than Visual Through The Operation Of Switching, Tv Figures The World From Within And As The Course Of Its Figuration This Is Grasped Here By The Term Of Ontography, The Human Response To The Natural Environment Through The Ongoing Interlacing And Bridging Of Tv 1 0 (The Image Is Being Switched) And Tv 2 0 (The Image Is A Switch), Tv Exponentially Increases The Production And Circulation Of Images It Transforms The World And Itself From An Analogue State To A Digital One And From Central Perspectivism To Pluri-Perspective In Terms Of Time, Through Switching And The Switch, It Develops And Reworks New Temporal Orderings, Such As Instantaneity, Synchronicity, Flow, And Seriality Tv Makes Its Own History In Space, It Creates A Mediasphere As Its Habitat And Hence New Forms Of Being-In-The-World, Of Proximity And Distance, And Scale Anthropologically, It Works On What A Subject And An Object Is, On What Makes The Human Being, And Ontographically, How It Is Possible That There Is Something At All Instead Of Nothing: Through Switch-Images Binding: Hardcover, Hardcover Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Publication Date: 2021-05-20 Dimensions: 0.88'' H x 8.5'' L x 5.5'' W Number of Pages: 392 Language: English
