Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: On the Spectrums  1
1. The Technical Delusion  21
2.Chipnapped  82
3. The Will to (Invisible) Power  117
4. The System  175
5. Targeted Individuals  237
Epilogue: The Matrix Defense  285
Notes  301
Bibliography  387
Index  419

"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. 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. 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

“Delusions arrive as visions, sounds, images, rays, and waves—they arrive by way of media apparatuses, which are one condition of existence of the historical ways in which we constantly and inescapably go mad. Jeffrey Sconce's outstanding book is the essential media theoretical guide that does not merely map how we go off the rails, but how and what kind of rails were constructed in the first place.” — Jussi Parikka, author of, Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology

“As Jeffrey Sconce parses the reasonable and the delusional, the reader is taken on a mind-altering journey through which two centuries of media and technological criticism, panic, and uncertainty become a continuous struggle to apprehend some fundamental unrealities of modern life. Speaking directly to the operations of media in a post-truth world, The Technical Delusion makes a major contribution to cultural histories of modernity and media and has enormous potential to expand how we study media and power.” — Charles R. Acland, author of, Swift Viewing: The Popular Life of Subliminal Influence

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