The prison house of the circuit: politics of control from analog to digital

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface: About the Writing of This Book -- An Introduction to the Circuit -- Chapter 1. How to Make a Soldier into a Medium: Docile Bodies in the Signaling Circuit -- Chapter 2. Soldiers in the Circuit: Media and Medicine in the First World War -- Chapter 3. Police Circuits: Render Automatic All the Mechanisms of Society -- Chapter 4. Circuitous Maximus: Automobility, Flow, and Driverless Futures -- Chapter 5. How We All Were Committed: Automating Medial Madness from Eyeglasses to Google Glass -- Chapter 6. Media Genealogical Method -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.

"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"--