Philosophical Reflections on Black Mirror

Kingsley Marshall is Head of Film & Television at the CILECT accredited School of Film & Television, and a member of the project team at the Sound/Image Cinema Lab, both based at Falmouth University, UK. James Rocha is Associate Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fresno, USA.

Introduction: Charlie Brooker’s Artistic Vision
Kingsley Marshall (Falmouth University, UK) & James Rocha (California State University: Fresno, USA)

Section One: Is Black Mirror Philosophy?
Chapter One: Through a Screen Darkly: Black Mirror, Thought Experiments, and Televisual Philosophy
Robert Sinnerbrink, Macquarie University, Australia

Chapter Two: Black Mirror as Philosophizing About Immortality, Technology and Human Nature
Lorraine Yeung, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, and Kong-Ngai Pei, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Chapter Three: Technology in Pastel Colors: An Alternative Take on Black Mirror
Laura di Summa, William Paterson University, USA

Chapter Four: The Virtue of Forgetting in Nietzsche’s Philosophy and Black Mirror
Daniel Shaw, Emeritus Professor Lock Haven University, USA

Section Two: Versions of the Self in Black Mirror
Chapter Five: Free Will in ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’
Sander Lee, Keene State College, USA

Chapter Six: ‘White Christmas’: Technologies of the Self in the Digital Age
Diana Stypinska, Liverpool Hope University, U.K. and Andrea Rossi, Koç University (Istanbul), Turkey

Chapter Seven: You Were Never Really Here: Representations of Artificial Intelligence in Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror
Kingsley Marshall, Falmouth University, UK

Section Three: Black Mirror and Relating to Others
Chapter Eight: ‘Crocodile’ Going Too Far: Philosophical Reflections on Human Nature and Moral Character
Clara Nisley, Oglethorpe University, USA

Chapter Nine: Rats, Roaches, and Rapists: ‘Men Against Fire’ and the Propagation of Propaganda
Leigh Rich, Georgia Southern University, USA

Chapter Ten: “Between Delight and Discomfort”: The Act of Mirroring in the Age of Black Mirror
Shai Biderman, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Chapter Eleven: The You They Love: Patriarchal Feminism and Ashley Too
Mona Rocha and James Rocha, California State University: Fresno, USA

Conclusion
James Rocha (California State University: Fresno, USA) & Kingsley Marshall (Falmouth University, UK)