The Squid Cinema from Hell: Kinoteuthis Infernalis and the Emergence of Chthulumedia

by William Brown and David H. Fleming

Book Overview

Here be Kraken The Squid Cinema From Hell draws upon writers like Vil m Flusser, Donna J. Haraway, Graham Harman and Eugene Thacker to offer up a critical analysis of cephalopods and other tentacular creatures in contemporary media, while also speculating that digital media might themselves constitute a weird, intelligent alien. If this were not enough to shiver ye timbers, the book engages with contemporary discourses of posthumanism, speculative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474463738
• ISBN13: 9781474463737
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"