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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 11 June 2025
- ISBN 9781138288119
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages134 pages
- Size 216x138 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
Black Mirror: Allegories for the Atomised addresses the ways that media and communications technologies shape our relationships with society, with others, and ultimately, with ourselves.
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Long description:
Black Mirror: Allegories for the Atomised addresses the ways that media and communications technologies shape our relationships with society, with others, and ultimately, with ourselves.
The main themes and discussions of this book are inspired by the imaginative storytelling and self-reflecting, wry, textual strategies and representations found in the Channel 4/Netflix global hit, Black Mirror ? a key touchstone in popular culture. Moving beyond the conventional parameters of Television Studies scholarship, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach informed through depth- and Self-psychology, Science Fiction Studies, Science and Technology Studies, communitarian ethics, and the Philosophy of Technology. Greg Singh conducts a critical inquiry into those aspects of memory, identity, surveillance, simulation and gamification prevalent in the series, that shape our reality and call into question our assumed notions of personhood.
This unique interdisciplinary examination of the cult series will appeal to scholars, students and fans alike in the fields of film and television studies, philosophy, depth and humanistic psychology.
'Black Mirror: Allegories for the Atomised is a brilliant exploration of the shifting relations between culture, technology institutions and our identity. While keeping the television series centre stage, Singh eloquently unravels the complexities of the changing power dynamics in our technologically mediated era. In so doing he illuminates how Black Mirror prompts further consideration of ourselves and our agency in the post-digital age. This is cutting edge cultural criticism whose publication could not be more timely.'
Luke Hockley PHd, Emeritus Professor, University of Bedfordshire, and Honorary Professor, University of Essex
'For all its science-fictional trappings, Black Mirror?s morbid realism is very precisely about the here-and-now, the years after we kind of gave up and drifted into somehow pretending that all this [*gestures*] was the least bad of all possible worlds. Brooker?s show and Singh?s smart little book take us on a guided tour of identity identity, memory, desire and affect in our technologically-saturated, totally surveilled and utterly insidious dystopia. Read it and weep.'
Mark Bould, Professor of Film and Literature, University of the West of England
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Table of Contents:
Introduction. Themes and Concerns in Charlie Brooker?s Black Mirror (Ch4/Netflix, 2011-present) 1. Memory, Identity, and Personhood 2. Surveillance, Control, and Satisfaction 3. Simulation, Labour, and Gamification Conclusion. ?It feels a bit like an episode of Black Mirror? Index Bibliography
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