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 new forms of thinking causality and agency, subject-object relations, tactility, choice, and other founding concepts of everyday experience as well as of outstanding philosophical relevance. In the course of media evolution, television organizes the transition from the analogue to the digital. Last not least, by conceiving of itself, television offers a source of finally thinking through television.

[Lorenz Engell](https://www.ikkm-weimar.de/kolleg/personen/lorenz-engell/) is Bauhaus Professor for Media Philosophy in Weimar. Since 2008, he is co-director of the research center IKKM at Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar. His areas of research are media philosophy, media anthropology, operative ontologies, and film and television studies. His current research projects focus on the philosophy of the diorama, on media ontographies, and on emergence and immersion.

Foreword: On Television and Media Philosophy in the Work of Lorenz EngellMarkus Stauff1. On the Difficulties of Television TheoryPart 1 From Transmission to Selectivity2. Click, Select, Think: The Origin and Function of a Philosophical Apparatus3. Television with Unknowns: Reflections on Experimental Television4. The Tactile and the Index: From the Remote Control to the Hand-Held ComputerPart 2. Televisual Events5. Apollo TV: The Copernican Turn of the Gaze6. Traps and Types: A Small Philosophy of the Television Scandal7. Boredom and War: Television and the End of the Fun SocietyPart 3. History - Memory - Seriality8. Narrative: Historiographic Technique and Cinematographic Spirit9. Beyond History and Memory: Historiography and the Autobiography of Television10. On Series11. The Art of Television: Ludwig Wittgenstein's 'Family Resemblance' and the Media Aesthetics of the Television SeriesPart 4 - Objects - Agency - Ontography12. On Objects in Series: Clocks and Mad Men13. Forensic Seriality: Remarks on CSI14. Instant Replay: On the Media Philosophy of the Slow-Motion ReplayBibliographyPublication DataIndex