Given adequate time to read and digest The Technical Delusion, advanced doctoral students and faculty in mass communication will find this book illuminating. It may interest scholars working in media history as well as cultural studies and critical theory…. " The Technical Delusion is an ambitious monograph that crystallizes the author's status as a leading thinker on mediated subjectivity. It should appeal to a wide audience, from historians of technology to media theorists and cultural studies theorists, from historians of psychiatry and psychoanalysis to psychiatrists and psychoanalysts themeslves." - Nicolas Henckes, Technology and Culture "A striking, ambitious, and demanding book….
"This book could be useful for those who want to look into mental illnesses related to technology and how it has evolved over the centuries." - Rustie Anglin, Communication Booknotes Quarterly "Sconce, a professor of media studies, has immersed himself in psychiatric history and brings the two fields together in an account that is densely theorised and rich in fascinating case studies." - Mike Jay, Fortean Times Sconce has assembled a remarkable array of evidence and stitched it together into a compelling narrative about the imaginary history of technology over the past two centuries." - Geoff Shullenberger, The New Atlantis " The Technical Delusion is the first comprehensive study of what psychotic visions have contributed to shared perceptions of technology. But alongside evenhanded appraisals of delicate subjects such as mental illness and conspiracy theories, Sconce manages to deliver his salient points with comedic flair, frequently punctuating his analyses with unexpected jokes." - Leo Goldsmith, Film Quarterly "Few recent works of media scholarship could be said to be, even occasionally, laugh-out-loud hilarious. One impressive feature of the study is how deftly Sconce weaves together case studies, literary source material, court cases, and popular media." - Amy Ione, Leonardo Reviews "A robust and multidimensional reminder of the complexity of human consciousness. It will be influential in media studies, and beyond that, in the wider effort to understand what all these devices are doing to us." - Ben Kafka, Bookforum "Sconce has written an important book that lets us tune in to some of the more disturbed and disturbing frequencies on the media-technological spectrum. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Labor and Working-Class History Associationĭelusions of electronic persecution have been a preeminent symptom of psychosis for over two hundred years.Association for Middle East Women's Studies.Author Resources from University Presses.
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