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Book SynopsisTelevision 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. 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 swi
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Switching On: The Beginnings of Television. Chapter 2: Live Television Chapter 3: The Series (1) Chapter 4: Flow Chapter 5: Interconnecting Chapter 6: Instant Replay Chapter 8: Switching: Remote Control Chapter 9: Second Screens Chapter 10: The Series (2) Chapter 11: Reality and History Chapter 12: Switch-Off-Images References Index
