Infinite Ontologies of the Chthulustream
Posthumanism and Racial Capital in Contemporary Streaming Media
Series: Screens, Thinking, Worlds;
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 31 August 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781399549806
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 B&W 683
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Short description:
Provides a critical analysis of various contemporary and classic shows, as well as of streaming media in general.
MoreLong description:
Brown and Fleming employ the twin discourses of critical race theory and posthumanism in order to expose how multinational platforms like Netflix play a role in both problematising and perpetuating deeply entrenched violences lurking within the intersections of racism, capitalism, and technology. The authors dive into the racialised world-building of shows like Stranger Things, Watchmen, Lovecraft Country, Sense8, The Twilight Zone, The O.A., Ad Vitam and DEVS, and through their groundbreaking media philosophy diagnose and confront the oppressive and racialising nature of streaming media at the end of the world, in the so-called Chthulucene (or ‘Chthulustream’). As Brown and Fleming demonstrate, streaming media can, at their best, liberate thought to confront overlapping infinite ontologies (∞O) that themselves offer a timely panacea and corrective to Object-Oriented-Ontology (OOO).
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction: The Mantle of the Beast; Or, Starting in the Middle (Passage)
Superposition I: Ontological Whiteness and/as Antiblackness
1. Ad Vitam
2. Stranger Things
3. The O.A
Superposition II: Paraontological Blackness
4. The Twilight Zone
5. Watchmen
6. Lovecraft Country
Superposition III: Ornamental Others and Foreigners Within
7. DEVS
8. Sense8
Conclusion: I May Destroy You... High Flying Birds
