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Cover: 9781478001065 | The Technical Delusion | Electronics, Power, Insanity | Jeffrey Sconce
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Cover: 9781478001065 | The Technical Delusion | Electronics, Power, Insanity | Jeffrey Sconce
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The Technical Delusion
Electronics, Power, Insanity
Taschenbuch von Jeffrey Sconce
Sprache: Englisch

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Delusions of electronic persecution have been a preeminent symptom of psychosis for over two hundred years. In The Technical Delusion Jeffrey Sconce traces the history and continuing proliferation of this phenomenon from its origins in Enlightenment anatomy to our era of global interconnectivity. While psychiatrists have typically dismissed such delusions of electronic control as arbitrary or as mere reflections of modern life, Sconce demonstrates a more complex and interdependent history of electronics, power, and insanity. Drawing on a wide array of psychological case studies, literature, court cases, and popular media, Sconce analyzes the material and social processes that have shaped historical delusions of electronic contamination, implantation, telepathy, surveillance, and immersion. From the age of telegraphy to contemporary digitality, the media emerged within such delusions to become the privileged site for imagining the merger of electronic and political power, serving as a paranoid conduit between the body and the body politic. Looking to the future, Sconce argues that this symptom will become increasingly difficult to isolate, especially as remote and often secretive powers work to further integrate bodies, electronics, and information.
Delusions of electronic persecution have been a preeminent symptom of psychosis for over two hundred years. In The Technical Delusion Jeffrey Sconce traces the history and continuing proliferation of this phenomenon from its origins in Enlightenment anatomy to our era of global interconnectivity. While psychiatrists have typically dismissed such delusions of electronic control as arbitrary or as mere reflections of modern life, Sconce demonstrates a more complex and interdependent history of electronics, power, and insanity. Drawing on a wide array of psychological case studies, literature, court cases, and popular media, Sconce analyzes the material and social processes that have shaped historical delusions of electronic contamination, implantation, telepathy, surveillance, and immersion. From the age of telegraphy to contemporary digitality, the media emerged within such delusions to become the privileged site for imagining the merger of electronic and political power, serving as a paranoid conduit between the body and the body politic. Looking to the future, Sconce argues that this symptom will become increasingly difficult to isolate, especially as remote and often secretive powers work to further integrate bodies, electronics, and information.
Über den Autor
Jeffrey Sconce is Associate Professor of Screen Cultures at Northwestern University, author of Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television, and editor of Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics, both also published by Duke University Press.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: On the Spectrums 1
1. The Technical Delusion 21
2.Chipnapped 82
3. The Will to (Invisible) Power 117
4. The System 175
5. Targeted Individuals 237
Epilogue: The Matrix Defense 285
Notes 301
Bibliography 387
Index 419
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Fotografie
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781478001065
ISBN-10: 1478001062
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Sconce, Jeffrey
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße: 229 x 152 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Jeffrey Sconce
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.02.2019
Gewicht: 0,644 kg
Artikel-ID: 114045624
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