Offering the first comprehensive account of trauma as a critical concept in the study of modern visual media, this book looks at how the psychoanalytic theory of trauma was adapted by the cultural critics Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, & Slavoj Zizek.
Offering the first comprehensive account of trauma as a critical concept in the study of modern visual media, this book looks at how the psychoanalyti...
This book presents an 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 responses 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 emphasizes the...
This book presents an historical account of media and catastrophe that engages with theories of biopolitics in the work of Michel Foucault, Giorgio...
