Still Life in Real Time

"Richard Dienst is a wonderful writer and an innovative thinker. His book reconfigures television as a cultural object of study, framing it with 'great thought' while reciprocally and provocatively arguing that television was a theoretical object for famous thinkers--including Heidegger and Derrida. Dienst has provided an astute, inventive model for analyzing electronic culture."--Patricia Mellencamp, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee