Humanity in a Black Mirror
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8382-9 (ISBN)
The presentation of technology as a response to human want or need is a defining aspect of Black Mirror, a series that centers the transhumanist conviction that ontological deficiency is a solvable problem. The articles in this collection continue Black Mirror's examination of the transhuman need for plentitude, addressing the convergence of fantasy, the posthuman, and the dramatization of fear. The contributors contend that Black Mirror reveals both the cracks of the posthuman self and the formation of anxiety within fantasy's empty, yet necessary, economy of desire.
The strength of the series lies in its ability to disrupt the visibility of technology, no longer portraying it as a naturalized, unseen background, affecting our very being at the ontological level without many of us realizing it. This volume of essays argues that this negative lesson is Black Mirror's most successful approach. It examines how Black Mirror demonstrates the Janus-like structure of fantasy, as well as how it teaches, unteaches, and reteaches us about desire in a technological world.
Jacob Blevins is professor and chair of English at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. He is the editor of the journal Intertexts and the author or editor of six books. Zahi Zalloua is the Cushing Eells professor of philosophy and literature and a professor of French and interdisciplinary studies at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and editor of The Comparatist. He is the author or co-author of seven books.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Traversing the Fantasy of Technology
Zahi Zalloua and Jacob Blevins
The Utopia of the Mirror: Angst, the Uncanny, and the Postmodern Mise en abyme
Robert T. Tally, Jr.
Paroxysm Politics
Peter Hitchcock
The Way the Cookie Doubles: Cripping the Cyber-Gothic of Black Mirror’s AI Tech
Whitney S. May
“Men Against Fire,” MASS, and Morality
Melina Constantine Bell and Nathaniel Goldberg
On the Government of Children: Visions of the Politics of Parenting from Plato to Deleuze in Black Mirror’s Arkangel
Jeffrey R. Di Leo
The Question(ing) Concerning (Anti-)Black-Technology: Inhabiting the Crack of Black Being Through the (Pyro-)Techno-Poethics of “Black Museum”
Andrew Santana Kaplan
Paranoia as Reparation in “Black Museum”
Nicole Simek
Trolling the Audience: Bandersnatch, Coercion, and Posthuman Capacities
Paul Muhlhauser, Sera McClintock, and Gianna D’Avella
Glass Walls and Unmasked Others: Anxiety
and the Commodification of Desire in “Nosedive”
Jacob Blevins
Sexuality and the Real in “Striking Vipers”
Zahi Zalloua
Conclusion
Jacob Blevins and Zahi Zalloua
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.08.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | notes, bibliography, index |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 286 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Technik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4766-8382-4 / 1476683824 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4766-8382-9 / 9781476683829 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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