Toward an Ontology of the Moving Image

Abstract

This chapter proposes a series of necessary conditions for membership in the category of the moving image, a group that includes not only film, but broadcast television, video, various kinds of computer-generated imagery, and technologies yet to be invented. The chapter argues that “the moving image” is the category that media studies – including the philosophy of media – needs in order to organize and carry out the kinds of research it is pursuing.