麻豆传媒AV

Citation

Fleming D (2025) ’The Weird Trans*lucent Flesh of the Chthulucene: Future Whiteness as Contemporary Antiblackness in Ad Vitam. Film-Philosophy, Chapman University, California., Chapman University, California., 13.06.2023-15.06.2023.

Abstract
This paper is extracted from the first superpositional volume of our forthcoming work Infinite Ontologies and harnesses animals, objects and hyperobjects as a means of addressing notions of whiteness and/as anti-blackness. Specifically in relation to Netflix SF series Ad Vital from 2018. My talk in three parts explores the synonymizing and operationalisation of whiteness with the category or genre of the human; including future transhuman/posthuman articulations. I specifically explore how Ad Vitam invites us to look through translucent hyper-white trans*human-jellyfish flesh to gain a form of, what Graham Harman calls, ‘Black Illumination’; Albeit I biopolitically/necropolitically detour this ‘Weird Realism’ term here in order to speak to a structural absence or generative void that encourages viewers to pretend the presence of violent racial formations undergirding these images and imaginaries.

Keywords
Ad Vitam; Chthulucene; science fiction; trans*humanism; Netflix