Episode 148 of TBR Podcast is live now! Don’t miss Jeremy Packer, Paula Nuñez de Villavincencio, Alexander Monea, Kathleen Oswald, and Kate Maddalena, the authors of, "The Prison House of the Circuit: Politics of Control from Analog to Digital," available now from the University of Minnesota Press!
Keywords: Foucault, surveillance, media genealogy, power, circuits and circuitry
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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 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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