Infinite Ontologies of the Chthulustream : Posthumanism and Racial Capital in Contemporary Streaming Media (Screens, Thinking, Worlds)

Brown, William/ Fleming, David H.

Edinburgh University Press（2025/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 400 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399549806
• DDC分類 791.4301

Full 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).

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