PRISON HOUSE OF THE CIRCUIT: POLITICS OF CONTROL FROM ANALOG TO DIGITAL (UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS, 2023)

Has society ceded its self-governance to technogovernance? Through the conceptual vocabulary of the circuit, The Prison House of the Circuit presents a history of digital media as well as a provocative model for thinking about governance and media. The authors ultimately demonstrate how contemporary media came to be mechanisms that create frictionless circulation to maximize control, efficacy, and state power.

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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