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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. More at upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-prison-house-of-the-circuit.

Jeremy Packer is professor in the Institute for Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology at the University of Toronto.

Paula Nuñez de Villavicencio is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto.

Alexander Monea is assistant professor of English and cultural studies at George Mason University.

Kathleen Oswald is adjunct faculty in the Department of Communication at Villanova University.

Kate Maddalena is assistant professor in the Institute for Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology at the University of Toronto.

Joshua Reeves is associate professor in the School of Communication at Oregon State University.
Digital Energetics argues that media and energy require joint theorization—not only in their potential to universalize but also in the many contingent and intermeshed relations that they bind together across contemporary informational and fossil regimes. The coauthors analyze how data and energy have jointly modulated the character of the materiality and labor of digital systems in a warming world. More at upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/digital-energetics.

Anne Pasek is assistant professor and the Canada Research Chair in Media, Culture, and the Environment at Trent University.

Cindy Kaiying Lin is assistant professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University.

Zane Griffin Talley Cooper is a PhD candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, a doctoral fellow at the Center for Advanced Research on Global Communication, and a sustainability researcher in Intel’s Software and Advanced Technology Group.

Jordan B. Kinder (Métis) is a postdoctoral fellow at the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University.

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