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  • Ontographies

    A Media Philosophy of Immanence

    by Lorenz Engell ...
    Series series Exeter Concepts in Media Thinking
    Ontographies proposes a radical shift, moving beyond the crisis of representation by embracing a philosophy of immanence, and offering a vital new perspective for understanding our media-saturated world.In light of recent media developments in algorithmic, digital and picture-based mediaspheres, we must accept that received models of representation (in politics, in the realm of signs, in ... Read more

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  • The Switch Image

    Television Philosophy

    by Lorenz Engell ...
    Series series Thinking Media
    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 ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Thinking Through Television

    by Lorenz Engell ...
    Series series Televisual Culture
    Media philosophy can only be found and revealed in media themselves. The essays collected in this volume thus approach television as a medium both of thought and of action in its own right. Through its specific forms and practices, television implements and reflects on aspects of time, such as synchronicity and succession, seriality and event, history and memory. Additionally, television stages ... Read more

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  • Anthropologies of Entanglements

    Media and Modes of Existence

    Series series Thinking Media
    Media and human modes of existence are always already intertwined and interdependent. The notion of the anthropocene has further stimulated a new examination of ideas about human agency and responsibility. Various approaches all emphasize relational concepts and the situatedness and embodiment of human-and also non-human-existences and experiences. Their common interest has shifted from any so ... Read more

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