{"title":"Jeremy Packer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJeremy Packer\u003c\/strong\u003e offers insightful works that delve into complex social and cultural themes, inviting readers to explore nuanced perspectives through rigorous analysis. His books often challenge prevailing narratives, making them essential reading for anyone interested in critical thought within the realm of education and reference.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith titles such as \u003cem\u003eThe Prison House of the Circuit\u003c\/em\u003e, Packer's writing demonstrates a keen awareness of societal structures and the forces that shape human experience. His work is characterised by clarity and depth, bridging academic inquiry with accessible prose.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-prison-house-of-the-circuit-by-jeremy-packer-9781517914172","title":"The Prison House of the Circuit","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHas society ceded its self-governance to technogovernance?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Prison House of the Circuit\u003c\/em\u003e presents a history of digital media using circuits and circuitry to understand how power operates in the contemporary era. Through the conceptual vocabulary of the circuit, it offers a provocative model for thinking about governance and media.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe authors, writing as a collective, provide a model for collective research and a genealogical framework that interrogates the rise of digital society through the lens of Foucault's ideas of governance, circulation, and power. The book includes five in-depth case studies investigating the transition from analog media to electronic and digital forms: military telegraphy and human-machine incorporation, the establishment of national electronic biopolitical governance in World War I, media as the means of extending spatial and temporal policing, automobility as the mechanism uniting mobility and media, and visual augmentation from Middle Ages spectacles to digital heads-up displays.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Prison House of the Circuit\u003c\/em\u003e ultimately demonstrates how contemporary media came to create frictionless circulation to maximise control, efficacy, and state power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47600148840684,"sku":"9781517914172","price":64.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/332f10e8f5d3a96d72732de5e7db55a0.jpg?v=1778021061"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/jeremy-packer.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}