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Biopolitical media :

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1138887064

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9781138887060

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97811315714400

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Biopolitical media :

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catastrophe, immunity and bare life /

First Statement of Responsibility

by Allen Meek

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

166 pages ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

Routledge research in cultural and media studies ;

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80

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Introduction -- The biotype and the anthropological machine -- Natural history and Nazi media -- Colonial trauma and the Holocaust -- The biopolitical imagination -- The immunity of empire

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"This book presents a historical account of media and catastrophe that engages with theories of biopolitics in the work of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri and others. It explains how response to catastrophe in media and cultural criticism over the past 150 years are embedded in biological conceptions of life and death, contamination and immunity, race and species. Mediated catastrophe is often understood today in terms of collective memory and according to therapeutic or redemptive accounts of trauma. In contrast to these approaches this book empahsizes the use of media to record, archive and analyze physical appearance and movement; to capture viewer attention through shock; to monitor and control bodies in economies of production and consumption; to enmesh social relations in information networks; and situate subjects in discourses of victimhood, immunity, survival and resilience. Chapters are focused on historical case studies of early photography, Nazi propaganda, colonial stereotypes, Hiroshima, the Holocaust, the Cold War and the war on terror"--First preliminary page

Biopolitics

Mass media-- Psychological aspects

Psychic trauma and mass media

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Meek, Allen,1961-

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20160309110923.0

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