Allen Meek
Biographic Data
| ID | 208438 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allen Meek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allen |
| FAMILY NAME | Meek |
| SIGNATURE | MEEK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massey University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6293-4795 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
In Transit
Because Sebald’s books are preoccupied with historical catastrophe, particularly the Holocaust, critical commentaries have often interpreted them in terms of the transmission of traumatic memory. But this stress on the temporal relay from past to present and future generations has drawn attention away from the emphasis on space and travel in Sebald’s work. In order to address this gap in Sebald criticism, this essay discusses three films that ada…
Biopolitical Media
"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 te…
Interrogating trauma
Mick Broderick and Antonio Traverso, Routledge, 2011, $125.00, ISBN 978-0-415-58278-0 This collection of essays originated in a conference of the same name held in Perth in 2008. It was also publis
Trauma
A review of Mick Broderick and Antonio Traverso (eds), Trauma, Media, Art: New Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2010
Mourning, Media and the ‘Virtual Space of Spectrality’
Exile and the Electronic Frontier
Much of the rhetoric that surrounds the so-called `electronic frontier' of the new communication technologies has emerged at a moment when discourses about borders, margins and exiles are also proliferating in the arts and in critical writing. What Mark Poster has called the `second media age', which he sees as constituting a mode of information fundamentally different to broadcast media, can also be seen as defining a period in which electronic …
Guides to the Electropolis
Guides to the Electropolis: Toward a Spectral Critique of the Media Allen Meek One of the most compelling sites in which the methodologies of psychoanalysis and marxian cultural theory intersect in contemporary critical writing is in the figure of the ghost. The political significance recently ascribed to this figure suggests a paradigmatic shift in cultural studies taking place where the poststructuralist death of the subject encounters both the…
Interrogating trauma
Mick Broderick and Antonio Traverso, Routledge, 2011, $125.00, ISBN 978-0-415-58278-0 This collection of essays originated in a conference of the same name held in Perth in 2008. It was also publis
Guides to the Electropolis
Guides to the Electropolis: Toward a Spectral Critique of the Media Allen Meek One of the most compelling sites in which the methodologies of psychoanalysis and marxian cultural theory intersect in contemporary critical writing is in the figure of the ghost. The political significance recently ascribed to this figure suggests a paradigmatic shift in cultural studies taking place where the poststructuralist death of the subject encounters both the…
Exile and the Electronic Frontier
Much of the rhetoric that surrounds the so-called `electronic frontier' of the new communication technologies has emerged at a moment when discourses about borders, margins and exiles are also proliferating in the arts and in critical writing. What Mark Poster has called the `second media age', which he sees as constituting a mode of information fundamentally different to broadcast media, can also be seen as defining a period in which electronic …
Mourning, Media and the ‘Virtual Space of Spectrality’
Interrogating trauma
Mick Broderick and Antonio Traverso, Routledge, 2011, $125.00, ISBN 978-0-415-58278-0 This collection of essays originated in a conference of the same name held in Perth in 2008. It was also publis
Trauma
A review of Mick Broderick and Antonio Traverso (eds), Trauma, Media, Art: New Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2010
Biopolitical Media
"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 te…
In Transit
Because Sebald’s books are preoccupied with historical catastrophe, particularly the Holocaust, critical commentaries have often interpreted them in terms of the transmission of traumatic memory. But this stress on the temporal relay from past to present and future generations has drawn attention away from the emphasis on space and travel in Sebald’s work. In order to address this gap in Sebald criticism, this essay discusses three films that ada…
Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)