Toni Pape is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam and coauthor of Nocturnal Fabulations: Ecology, Vitality, and Opacity in the Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
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
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