ghost tentacles in the shell
these phantasmic tentacles take many forms. they draw your attention to the screen. they pull you in close enough to make you believe it is real. meanwhile, a narrative is being written about youβfor you. an algorithm spits squidy ink in your face. blinds you. you keep clickity-clacking. this is the ebb and flow of the digital chthulucene.
cephalopodic forms of thought and intelligence may here be fathomed as entering molecularly into composition with the ancestors of todayβs digital media assemblages and techno-culture forms, with the cephalopod here becoming the proverbial ghost haunting the computer shell.
β william brown & david fleming, the squid cinema from hell: kinoteuthis infernalis and the emergence of chthulumedia