Add to ORKGThis article explores transmedia swarmings via the Lovecraft mythos which has mutated across various media. The chapter uses the insights of theorists such as Henry Jenkins and others working on transmedia in combination with Jussi Parikka's notion of "insect media", a posthuman approach to media ecologies that emphasises the swarming and contagious nature of cultural exchange. As Glennis Byron and Dale Townshend have suggested, swarming is a recurrent chronotype in Gothic fiction, as zombies, vampires, clones and viruses operate as mobile, deterritorialized and ferocious agents across threatening, non-human networks. As such, the Cthulhu mythos offers an example of how the distortions, mutations, and contagions of swarming media can manife...
Drawing on a rich literary tradition, Gothic novels display strange and unreal places such as cast...
Weird Fiction is identifiable by its atomosphere of cosmic fear and unease which is produced through...
This paper considers whether the twenty-first-century resurgence of H. P. Lovecraft and we...
Since the 1990s, the virus and the network metaphors have become increasingly popular, finding appli...
On the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Transmedia Creatures p...
This volume, a collection with contributions from some of the major scholars of the Gothic in litera...
The adjective Lovecraftian, denoting a resemblance to the fictional works of H. P. Lovecraft, has be...
This article considers Jussi Parikka's Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology and it...
The bestselling genre of Frankenfiction sees classic literature turned into commercial narratives in...
The post-modern gothic simultaneously makes reference to already well-grounded experience, such as t...
In Insect Media, Jussi Parikka frames his discussion of ‘media as insect’ as a way to foreground med...
Drawing on a rich literary tradition, Gothic novels display strange and unreal places such as castle...
The Post-punk music movement of the late 1970s and early 80s, was, in various ways, hugely inspired ...
Horror video games are an important site for technological examination. This thesis will explore the...
The introduction outlines this collection's focus on the affordances of the media environments in wh...
Drawing on a rich literary tradition, Gothic novels display strange and unreal places such as cast...
Weird Fiction is identifiable by its atomosphere of cosmic fear and unease which is produced through...
This paper considers whether the twenty-first-century resurgence of H. P. Lovecraft and we...
Since the 1990s, the virus and the network metaphors have become increasingly popular, finding appli...
On the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Transmedia Creatures p...
This volume, a collection with contributions from some of the major scholars of the Gothic in litera...
The adjective Lovecraftian, denoting a resemblance to the fictional works of H. P. Lovecraft, has be...
This article considers Jussi Parikka's Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology and it...
The bestselling genre of Frankenfiction sees classic literature turned into commercial narratives in...
The post-modern gothic simultaneously makes reference to already well-grounded experience, such as t...
In Insect Media, Jussi Parikka frames his discussion of ‘media as insect’ as a way to foreground med...
Drawing on a rich literary tradition, Gothic novels display strange and unreal places such as castle...
The Post-punk music movement of the late 1970s and early 80s, was, in various ways, hugely inspired ...
Horror video games are an important site for technological examination. This thesis will explore the...
The introduction outlines this collection's focus on the affordances of the media environments in wh...
Drawing on a rich literary tradition, Gothic novels display strange and unreal places such as cast...
Weird Fiction is identifiable by its atomosphere of cosmic fear and unease which is produced through...
This paper considers whether the twenty-first-century resurgence of H. P. Lovecraft and we...