The Prison House of the Circuit
eBook - ePub

The Prison House of the Circuit

Politics of Control from Analog to Digital

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Prison House of the Circuit

Politics of Control from Analog to Digital

About this book

Has society ceded its self-governance to technogovernance?

The Prison House of the Circuit presents a history of digital media using circuits and circuitry to understand how power operates in the contemporary era. Through the conceptual vocabulary of the circuit, it offers a provocative model for thinking about governance and media.

The authors, writing as a collective, provide a model for collective research and a genealogical framework that interrogates the rise of digital society through the lens of Foucault’s ideas of governance, circulation, and power. The book includes five in-depth case studies investigating the transition from analog media to electronic and digital forms: military telegraphy and human–machine incorporation, the establishment of national electronic biopolitical governance in World War I, media as the means of extending spatial and temporal policing, automobility as the mechanism uniting mobility and media, and visual augmentation from Middle Ages spectacles to digital heads-up displays. The Prison House of the Circuit ultimately demonstrates how contemporary media came to create frictionless circulation to maximize control, efficacy, and state power.

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Yes, you can access The Prison House of the Circuit by Jeremy Packer,Paula Nuñez de Villavicencio,Alexander Monea,Kathleen Oswald,Kate Maddalena,Joshua Reeves in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Philosophy & Ethics in Science. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface: About the Writing of This Book
  6. An Introduction to the Circuit: Four Chairs, Four Problems
  7. 1. How to Make a Soldier into a Medium: Docile Bodies in the Signaling Circuit
  8. 2. Soldiers in the Circuit: Media and Medicine in the First World War
  9. 3. Police Circuits: Render Automatic All the Mechanisms of Society
  10. 4. Circuitous Maximus: Automobility, Flow, and Driverless Futures
  11. 5. How We All Were Committed: Automating Medial Madness from Eyeglasses to Google Glass
  12. 6. Media Genealogical Method
  13. Notes
  14. Index
  15. About the Author