Figures of Time : Affect and the Television of Preemption (Thought in the Act)

Pape, Toni

Duke University Press（2019/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781478004035
• DDC分類 791.4563

Full Description

Many contemporary television series from Modern Family to How to Get Away with Murder open an episode or season with a conflict and then go back in time to show how that conflict came to be. In Figures of Time Toni Pape examines these narratives, showing how these leaps in time create aesthetic experiences of time that attune their audiences to the political doctrine of preemption-a logic that justifies preemptive action to nullify a perceived future threat. Examining questions of temporality in Life on Mars, the political ramifications of living under the auspices of a catastrophic future in FlashForward, and how Damages disrupts the logic of preemption, Pape shows how television helps shift political culture away from a model of rational deliberation and representation toward a politics of preemption and conformity. Exposing the mechanisms through which television supports a fear-based politics, Pape contends, will allow for the rechanneling of television's affective force into building a more productive and positive politics.

Contents

Introduction. Preemptive Narratives and Televisual Futures  1
1. The Serial Machine: Toward Figures of Time  38
2. Three Representations and a Figural: Bergsonian Variations on Metric Time, the Virtual, and Creative Becoming  73
3. Loop into Line: The Moral Command of Preemption  109
4. Damages as Procedural Television  142
Afterword. Anarchival Television  176
Acknowledgments  183
Notes  185
Works Cited  203
Index  215