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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Auto-Mobile America -- 1. The Crusade for Traffic Safety -- 2. Hitching the Highway to Hell -- 3. Motorcycle Madness -- 4. Communications Convoy -- 5. Of Cadillacs and "Coon Cages" -- 6. Raging with a Machine -- 7. Safety to Security -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Preface to an inauthentic document -- Event matrix -- Identification friend or foe -- Centralized control / decentralized execution -- In extremis -- Hostile environment -- Autonomous operation -- Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance -- Escalation -- Vital ground -- Unidentified flying objects -- Conclusion: Armistice.

This article examines the role of media technology in determining preconstitutive enemies of the political order. To do so, it analyzes how discipline-specific methods of enemy detection, analysis, and neutralization correspond to different media environments. Media have a diagnostic and prescriptive significance: not only do they locate enemies that conform to their own unique standards of measurement, they also offer reprogramming resources that accentuate their own peculiar biases and capacities. Episodes in the history of biology and psychology are examined for evidence of this media logic.

Communication has often been understood as a realm of immaterial, insubstantial phenomena-images, messages, thoughts, languages, cultures, and ideologies-mediating our embodied experience of the concrete world. Communication Matters challenges this view, assembling leading scholars in the fields of Communication, Rhetoric, and English to focus on the materiality of communication. Building on the work of materialist theorists such as Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Friedrich Kittler, and Henri Lefebvre, the essays collected here examine the materiality of discourse itself and the c

Intro -- Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Governing the Present -- 2. Mapping the Intersections of Foucault and Cultural Studies -- 3. Culture and Governmentality -- Part I: Knowledge, Theory, Expertise -- 4. Making Politics Reasonable -- 5. Bureaumentality -- 6. Disciplining Mobility -- Part II: Policy, Power, and Governing Practices -- 7. Unaided Virtues -- 8. From Nation to Community -- 9. Designing Fear -- 10. Creating a New Panopticon -- Part III: Technologies of the Self -- 11. Doing Good by Running Well -- 12. God Games and Governmentality -- 13. Subjectivity as Identity -- Contributors -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Index of Subjects -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

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"--