Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Televisual Flows
1. The Outbreak of Television
2. Image/Machine/Image: Marx and Metaphor in Television Theory
Part II: Commercial Breaks
3. History, the Eternal Rerun: On Crime Story
4. Mondino, MTV, and the Laugh of Madonna
5. "Appetite and Satisfaction, a Golden Circle": Magic and Commerce in Twin Peaks
Part III: Theoretical Images
6. The Dangers of Being in a Televisual World: Heidegger and the Ontotechnological Question
7. From Post Cards to Smart Bombs (and Back Again): Derrida and the Televisual Textual System
8. Ineluctable Modalities of the Televisual
Notes
Bibliography
Index