Sconce The Technical Delusion

Electronics, Power, Insanity
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0244-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten

Jeffrey Sconce traces the history and continuing proliferation of psychological delusions that center on suspicions that electronic media seek to control us from the Enlightenment to the present, showing how such delusions illuminate the historical and intrinsic relationship between electronics, power, modernity, and insanity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sconce, Jeffrey

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.