Abstract
Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror (2011-) paints the world in which the god of a technologically sophisticated late capitalist society, the omniscient and omnipresent algorithm, has complete control over human thoughts, actions and even bodily functions. The question Brooker addresses in his bleak, often satirical, sketches is as old as human consciousness itself: do we have authentic existence in an environment full of screens, reflections, copies; where technology is pervasive and ubiquitous, and encroaches onto our agency, invades and takes over our identity? The capacity to act and determine one’s own actions in an increasingly technologised world is the most prominent theme of the show.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Moral Uncanny in Black Mirror |
Editors | Margaret Gibson, Clarissa Carden |
Place of Publication | Cham |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Chapter | 10 |
Pages | 171-189 |
Number of pages | 19 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783030474959 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783030474942 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 6 Nov 2020 |
Keywords
- Black Mirror
- Netflix
- Uncanny
- Dystopian
- Morality
- Television Studies
- Social Commentary
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Arts and Humanities
- General Social Sciences