Foreword: On Television and Media Philosophy in the Work of Lorenz Engell Markus Stauff 1. On the Difficulties of Television Theory Part 1 From Transmission to Selectivity 2. Click, Select, Think: The Origin and Function of a Philosophical Apparatus 3. Television with Unknowns: Reflections on Experimental Television 4. The Tactile and the Index: From the Remote Control to the Hand-Held Computer Part 2. Televisual Events 5. Apollo TV: The Copernican Turn of the Gaze 6. Traps and Types: A Small Philosophy of the Television Scandal 7. Boredom and War: Television and the End of the Fun Society Part 3. History - Memory - Seriality 8. Narrative: Historiographic Technique and Cinematographic Spirit 9. Beyond History and Memory: Historiography and the Autobiography of Television 10. On Series 11. The Art of Television: Ludwig Wittgenstein's 'Family Resemblance' and the Media Aesthetics of the Television Series Part 4 - Objects - Agency - Ontography 12. On Objects in Series: Clocks and Mad Men 13. Forensic Seriality: Remarks on CSI 14. Instant Replay: On the Media Philosophy of the Slow-Motion Replay Bibliography Publication Data Index