Infinite Ontologies of the Chthulustream

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).

A theoretically sophisticated, highly energetic, cognitopoetic passage through the media ecologies of computational racial capitalism, with serious attention to the B-side of popular culture as here revealed by original and compelling concatenations of key concepts from Marxist, Critical Race and Media Theory. Brown and Fleming mobilize a Hunter S. Thompson meets Sylvia Wynter analytic prose to parse the mycological, cephalopodic, algorithmic formations of meaning and violence — this latter, a Lovecraftian synthesis that, as they demonstrate, has become increasingly unavoidable in a digitized, racialized and colonized world immersed in self-made yet nonetheless cosmic crisis.

• Introduction: The Mantle of the Beast; Or, Starting in the Middle (Passage)Superposition I: Ontological Whiteness and/as Antiblackness1. Ad Vitam2. Stranger Things3. The O.ASuperposition II: Paraontological Blackness4. The Twilight Zone5. Watchmen6. Lovecraft CountrySuperposition III: Ornamental Others and Foreigners Within7. DEVS8. Sense8Conclusion: I May Destroy You... High Flying Birds