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

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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