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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.
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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