The moral uncanny in Black Mirror / Margaret Gibson, Clarissa Carden, editors.
Gibson, Margaret, editor.; Carden, Clarissa, editor.
2021
PN1992.77.B525 M67 2021
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Title The moral uncanny in Black Mirror / Margaret Gibson, Clarissa Carden, editors.
ISBN 9783030474959 (electronic bk.)
303047495X (electronic bk.)
3030474941
9783030474942
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47495-9
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-47495-9 doi
Call Number PN1992.77.B525 M67 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.4572
Summary This erudite volume examines the moral universe of the hit Netflix show Black Mirror. It brings together scholars in media studies, cultural studies, anthropology, literature, philosophy, psychology, theatre and game studies to analyse the significance and reverberations of Charlie Brooker's dystopian universe with our present-day technologically mediated life world. Brooker's ground-breaking Black Mirror anthology generates often disturbing and sometimes amusing future imaginaries of the dark side of ubiquitous screen life, as it unleashes the power of the uncanny. This book takes the psychoanalytic idea of the uncanny into a moral framework befitting Black Mirror's dystopian visions. The volume suggests that the Black Mirror anthology doesn't just make the viewer feel, on the surface, a strange recognition of closeness to some of its dystopian scenarios, but also makes us realise how very fragile, wavering, fractured, and uncertain is the human moral compass.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 26, 2021).
Added Author Gibson, Margaret, editor.
Carden, Clarissa, editor.
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1. Introduction / Margaret Gibson and Clarissa Carden
2. God is an Algorithm: Black Mirror and the Future of Human Agency / Helena Bassil-Morozow
3. Living on beyond the body: The digital soul of Black Mirror / Margaret Gibson and Clarissa Carden
4. Black Mirror and Borges's concept of the Infinite Finite / Suzie Gibson and Dean Biron
5. Spectacular Return: Inexhaustion in White Bear's 'Exhibitionary Complex' / Bryoni Trezise
6. Facial Obfuscation and Bare Life / Grant Bollmer
7. Technology and human needs in the world of Black Mirror / Dr Neil Martin & Associate Professor Helen Farley
8. Invasive Gaming, bio-sensing and digital labour in Playtest / Gareth Schott.- 9. Conclusion / Margaret Gibson and Clarissa Carden.

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