Description: "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"--
Review Quotes:
"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
"The authors' careful engagements with [...] major concepts (e.g. infrastructure, network, platform, etc.) in each chapter help to not only structure the book but to also clarify the broad applicability of its ideas. The various fruitful and innovative engagements with disability studies throughout the text also stand out as an especially notable aspect of its findings."--New Media Society