Biopolitical Media

This book presents an historical account of media and catastrophe that engages with theories of biopolitics and explains how responses to catastrophe in both media and cultural criticism over the past 150 years are embedded in biological conceptions of life and death, health and illness, and human and non-human species.

Allen Meek is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Massey University, New Zealand. He is the author of Trauma and Media (Routledge 2010). He has recent chapters on trauma, catastrophe and biopolitics in The Fourth Eye: Maori Media in Aotearoa (2013) and Film on the Fault Line (2015).

Introduction 1. The Biotype and the Anthropological Machine 2. Natural History and Nazi Media 3. Colonial Trauma and the Holocaust 4. The Biopolitical Imagination 5. The Immunity of Empire