Infinite Ontologies of the Chthulustream : Posthumanism and Racial Capital in Contemporary Streaming Media
Infinite Ontologies of the Chthulustream : Posthumanism and Racial Capital in Contemporary Streaming Media
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Author(s): Brown, William
ISBN No.: 9781399549806
Pages: 380
Year: 202508
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 195.57
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (Forthcoming)

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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