Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction: Read that Back to Yourself and Ask If You Live in a Sane Society; Gazing into the Black Mirror; Between Light and Shadow, Between Science and Superstition; The Fears and Fantasies of Black Mirror: From "The National Anthem" to Bandersnatch; From Channel Four to Netflix: Black Mirror in the Global Age; Welcome to the Black Mirror Universe; References; Part I; "The National Anthem", Terrorism and Digital Media; Introduction; Power, Society and Surveillance in "The National Anthem"; Terrorism, Cultural Humiliation and "The National Anthem."

ConclusionReferences; "Fifteen Million Merits": Gamification, Spectacle, and Neoliberal Aspiration; Introduction; Gamification; Spectacle and Streaming; Conclusion; References; Enhanced Memory: "The Entire History of You"; The Narcissus Narcosis; When Memory Becomes Pornography; Why Memories Should Decay; Visuality as Power; References; Part II; Making Room for Our Personal Posthuman Prisons: Black Mirror's "Be Right Back"; References; Ideological State Apparatuses, Perversions of Courtly Love, and Curatorial Violence in "White Bear"; References

Political Apathy, the ex post facto Allegory and Waldo's Trumpian MomentIntroduction; Gestation, Analysis and Apathy; The Trump Moment; Endings and Beginnings; References; We Have Only Ourselves to Fear: Reflections on AI Through the Black Mirror of "White Christmas"; Introduction: The Threat of Consciousness; Terminology; "I'm Pretty Sure I'm Me"; "But I Am Me"; "She Cut You Out Good"; Conclusion: The Real and the Damned?; References; Part III; The Planned Obsolescence of "Nosedive"; Augmentation, Simulacra, and Governance; Impression Management and the Vanilla Selfie; Lacie Let Go

Planned ObsolescenceReferences; Augmented Reality Bites: "Playtest" and the Unstable Now; Introduction; Synched; Game Time; Losing the Real; Under Pressure in the Unstable Now; References; Shame, Stigma and Identification in "Shut Up and Dance"; "I only looked at pictures"; "They're gonna put it everywhere"; "Jerking off to porn or something? Well, everyone does that"; "Is that what you are? A dirty, sick, disgusting pervert?"; References; Unreal City: Nostalgia, Authenticity, and Posthumanity in "San Junipero"; References

Deviating the Other: Inspecting the Boundaries of Progress in "Men Against Fire"When There Is No Enemy, Bring Out the Zombies; We're on a Road to Nowhere-The Mass, Roaches, and the Notion of Progress; Empathy Is the Enemy; References; On Killer Bees and GCHQ: "Hated in the Nation"; Rise of the Drone; A Unabomber for the Digital Age; Games, Consequences, Online Hatred and Real Life; On Nordic Noir and Killer Bees; References; Part IV; Dethroning the King of Space: Toxic White Masculinity and the Revised Adventure Narrative in "USS Callister"; Introduction: Ripped from the Headlines; Microscopic Gods: Toxic White Masculinity in a Neoliberal World