ONE The Outbreak of Television

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xv
5. PART I: TELEVISUAL FLOWS
6. ONE The Outbreak of Television 3
7. TWO Image/Machine/Image: Marx and Metaphor in Television Theory 36
8. PART II: COMMERCIAL BREAKS
9. THREE History, the Eternal Rerun: On Crime Story 69
10. FOUR Mondino, MTV, and the Laugh of Madonna 79
11. FIVE "Appetite and Satisfaction, a Golden Circle": Magic and Commerce in Twin Peaks 89
12. PART III Theoretical Images
13. SIX The Dangers of Being in a Televisual World: Heidegger and the Ontotechnological Question 103
14. SEVEN From Post Cards to Smart Bombs (and Back Again): Derrida and the Televisual Textual System 128
15. EIGHT Ineluctable Modalities of the Televisual 144
16. NOTES 171
17. BIBLIOGRAPHY 195
18. Index 205