Focusing on the aesthetics of video, "Timeshift" tests current semiotic, postmodernist and psychoanalytic approaches in the laboratory of real-life video viewing.

Chapter 1 The discontinuity announcer; Chapter 2 Timeshift; Chapter 3 Stars get in your eyes; Chapter 4 Box pop; Chapter 5 How to watch video art; Chapter 6 An other and its others; Chapter 7 Out of sight; Chapter 8 Powerplay; Chapter 9 Lost generations;