ABSTRACT
Television viewing opens on an image toward which it must continue to orient itself. The problem of the relation between the televised and the untelevised is a problem whose end is not a resolution, but an indefiniteness to be cultivated. This chapter emphasizes the insistence of the truth, which is the insistence of the difference between the televised and the untelevised, as well as the insistence of their inseparability. The "subject" of TV may be the subject of self-reference, the main or consistent reference of the televised, which at the same time permeates the untelevised and is an active factor in determining what the untelevised, too, is. The relation between the televised and the untelevised exceeds and upsets the domain governed by metaphysics, as this domain has always been upset. The difference between them remains unresolved, as always, and still turned on, on the air.
