Infinite Ontologies of the Chthulustream: Posthumanism and Racial Capital in Contemporary Streaming Media - Couverture rigide

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Brown, William; Fleming, David H.

 
9781399549806: Infinite Ontologies of the Chthulustream: Posthumanism and Racial Capital in Contemporary Streaming Media
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ISBN 10 : 1399549804 ISBN 13 : 9781399549806
Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2025

Synopsis

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).

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À propos des auteurs

William Brown is a Senior Lecturer in Film at the University of Roehampton, London. He is the author of various books, including Non-Cinema: Global Digital Filmmaking and the Multitude (Bloomsbury, 2018) and Supercinema: Film-Philosophy for the Digital Age (Berghahn, 2013). He is also a maker of micro-budget films, including En Attendant Godard (2009), Selfie (2014) and This is Cinema (2019).

David H. Fleming is a Senior Lecturer in the Communications, Media and Culture Division at the University of Stirling. He is the author of Unbecoming Cinema (2017) and co-author of Squid Cinema from Hell (2020, EUP) and Chinese Urban Shi-nema (2020). He is also co-editor of Cinema, Identities and Beyond (2009).

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Éditeur
Edinburgh University Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1399549804
ISBN 13 
9781399549806
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
400
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