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Still Life in Real Time - Theory After Television (Paperback, New)
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Still Life in Real Time - Theory After Television (Paperback, New)
Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions
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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.
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