Dystopia on Demand: Technology, Digital Culture, and the Metamodern Quest in Complex Serial Dystopias (eBook)

Laura Winter hat am Lehrstuhl für Anglistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Universität Mannheim promoviert.

I. Introduction: Serialising Dystopia
II. Dystopia, Complex TV, and Metamodernism
1. Technology and the Dystopian Imagination
1.1 Tracing the Human-Technology Entanglement
1.2 Digital Culture, the Good Life, and Resilience
2. Serialising Dystopia in Audio-Visual Culture
2.1 Challenging Escapism through Complexity
2.2 Worldbuilding and Modes of Complexities
3. Dystopia and Complex TV: A Metamodern Quest
3.1 Oscillation, 'Depthiness', and Other Metamodern Sensibilities
3.2 The End is (not) Nigh: Seriality and Utopia as Process
III. Complex Serial Dystopias and the Human-Technology Entanglement
1. Technological Omnipresence in Black Mirror (2011-)
1.1 Navigating Screen Culture: The Black Mirror Universe
1.2 Invasive Technologies: Implants, Algorithms, and Robot Dogs
1.3 Dystopian Heroes and the Vortex of Hyperobjects
1.4 "Heaven is a Place on Earth": The Anthology's Metamodern Impulse
2. Society in Binary Codes: Mr. Robot (2015-2019)
2.1 Decoding the Dystopian Realism of Mr. Robot
2.2 Merging Hyperobjects: Visions of Technology & Capitalism
2.3 "Are you a 1 or a 0?": Elliot's Entrapment
2.4 Failed Revolutions: Hacking the Way to Utopia
3. The Uncanny Valley of Westworld (2016-)
3.1 Westworld: A Carefully Designed Microcosm for Visitors - and Viewers
3.2 "Going off script": Hedonism, the Good Life, and Malfunctioning Machines
3.3 "If you can't tell, does it matter?": Narratives and Unresolved Binaries
3.4 An Android's Utopia: Romanticising the Robot
4. VR Gaming and Postponed Utopia: Kiss Me First (2018-)
4.1 CGI meets Reality: VR Gaming and Dystopian Realism
4.2 "What you're hiding... it'll come out": Red Pill and the Unconscious
4.3 Coming of Age in Digital Culture: Leila's Solitary Quest
4.4 From Utopia to Eutopia: False Promises and the Infinite Deferral of Utopia
IV. Conclusion: The Future of Dystopia, TV, and Hope
V. Bibliography