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[Commlist] Prison House of the Circuit--New Book

Wed Mar 08 16:43:28 GMT 2023




Jeremy Packer wants to announce the publication of /The Prison House of the Circuit/, a polyauthored monograph that was released yesterday.  The book was co-written by a group of six scholars, Jeremy Packer, Paula Nuñez de Villavicencio, Alexander Monea, Kathleen Oswald, Kate Maddalena, and Joshua Reeves.

The book provides a general theory of circuits and circulation, five historical case studies, and methodological guidance on how to British combine cultural studies and German media theory.

Here is a bit of detail and a blurb from the University of Minnesota website.

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-prison-house-of-the-circuit <https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-prison-house-of-the-circuit>

/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.

“Alive to historical detail and punctuated by field-shifting provocations, this stunning book enlists media genealogy to excavate the science of signals trafficking through systems of command and control. The authors triage the pulse of electronic circuitry spanning the planet, hardwiring populations and perception into real-time biotechnical conduits of power.”— Ned Rossiter, author of Software, Infrastructure, Labor: A Media Theory of Logistical Nightmares


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