The Technical Delusion: Electronics, Power, Insanity

by Jeffrey Sconce

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478001062
• ISBN13: 9781478001065
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"