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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Sconce, Jeffrey (1962-....)
Titre(s) : The technical delusion [Texte imprimé] : electronics, power, insanity / Jeffrey Sconce
Publication : Durham, [North Carolina] ; London : Duke university press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 433 pages : ill. ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-418) and index
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
Sujet(s) : Télécommunications -- Psychologie
Paranoïa -- Anthropologie
Technocratie
Indice(s) Dewey :
384.01 (23e éd.) = Communications - Philosophie et théorie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781478000761. - ISBN 1478000767. - ISBN 9781478001065. - ISBN 1478001062
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45696265n
Notice n° :
FRBNF45696265
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: on the spectrums ; The technical delusion ; Chipnapped ; The will
to (invisible) power ; The system ; Targeted individuals ; Epilogue: the Matrix
defense.
