Reading »Black Mirror«: Insights into Technology and the Post-Media Condition

Published by transcript Verlag 2021

Reading »Black Mirror«

Insights into Technology and the Post-Media Condition

Edited by: German A. Duarte and Justin Michael Battin

Volume 75 in the series Edition Medienwissenschaft

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839452325

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About this book

Very few contemporary television programs provoke spirited responses quite like the dystopian series Black Mirror. This provocative program, infamous for its myriad apocalyptic portrayals of humankind's relationship with an array of electronic and digital technologies, has proven quite adept at offering insightful commentary on a number of issues contemporary society is facing. This timely collection draws on innovative and interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks to provide unique perspectives about how confrontations with such issues should be considered and understood through the contemporary post-media condition that drives technology use.

Author / Editor information

German A. Duarte (Dr.) is a media theorist, film scholar, film editor and currently assistant professor of film and media studies at Freie Universität Bozen. His research interests include the history of media, film history, cognitive cultural economy and philosophy.
Justin Michael Battin is Lecturer of Communication at RMIT University in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. His research focuses on intersecting strands of Heidegger's philosophy with the everyday uses of mobile media technologies and mobile social media.

Reviews

Besprochen in:
merz, 65/2 (2021)
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk, 14.05.2021, Beba Cibralic

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Imagining the Present Age German A. Duarte and Justin Michael Battin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Black Mirror Mapping the Possible in a Post-Media Condition German A. Duarte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
It’s the End of the World as We See It A (Post)Apocalyptic Reading of Fifteen Million Merits and Metalhead Marcin Mazurek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Mind Games Playtest as an Allegory for Liquid Modernity Joseph Macey and Brian McCauley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Exhausting Choices Bandersnatch and the Future of Our Entertainment Platforms Robbie Fordyce and Thomas H. Apperley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Qualia Inside the Mirror The Technification of the Subjective Experience in Black Mirror Mauricio Molina-Delgado and Bértold Salas-Murillo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Technology and Place in Science Fiction Exploring the Post-Pessimism of Black Mirror Justin Michael Battin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Mediated Subjectivities in Postemotional Society Black Mirror’s Nosedive Hatice Övgü Tüzün Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Nosedive and the “Like” Dystopia A Reflection on Black Mirror Santiago Giraldo-Luque, Ricardo Carniel Bugs and Santiago Tejedor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
The Price of Visibility Black Mirror, Technologies of Vision, and Surveillance Policies Andrea Facchetti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Making a Killing Science Fiction Through the Lens of Nordic Noir in Crocodile and Hated in the Nation Dan Ward Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Mediated Verminisation Ideology, Technology, and the Other as Monster Artur de Matos Alves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Technicity and the Utopian Limits of the Body Anna Caterina Dalmasso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
The ‘Death of Neighbour’ Seen in a Black Mirror – (Be Right Back on Solaris) Alfredo Rizza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Death in San Junipero The Hyper-Reality Principle Georgios Tsagdis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
San Junipero On Disembodied Paradises and Their Transhumanist Fallacies Gabriela Galati Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Hated in the Nation A Phantasma of a Post-Climate Change World Gabor Sarlos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Author Biographies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 334
Keywords: Digital Media; Science Fiction; Dystopia; Television; Society; Media Theory; Film; Sociology of Technology; Media Studies

eBook

Published: January 27, 2021
ISBN: 9783839452325