Digital Dystopia

'Black Mirror' and the End of Humanism
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-80374-517-6
Verlag: Peter Lang

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 122 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 199 g

Reihe: Speculations

: a show, a museum, a prison and a video game with no discontinuity between outside and inside, self and other, organic and inorganic. This is our world, where technology, AI, algorithms and social networks prevail over individuals, annihilating the foundational autonomy, rationality and anthropocentrism of Western culture. The society of the future described by the British TV serial with gloomy, visionary premonitions, expresses in a paroxysmic way what we already experience: everyday dystopia. It is science fiction that is more real than reality. Scrutiny permits the perception of our time as catastrophe, but crucially also the understanding of what emerges from the ashes of humanism and modernity: trolls, sexting, cancel culture, predictive analytics and surrogates of the human. We are in the heart of tragedy, but something endures, is born and proliferates among the fragments of the past. Like it or not, Charlie Brooker's reveals the first glimpses of the digital dawn.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Attimonelli, Claudia

Susca, Vincenzo

Tyldesley, Kath

Tyldesley, Mike

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gardenier, Matthijs

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures - Note on the English Edition - Preface to the English Edition: A reality to be prevented? A reality to play with? A reality that can exist without us? - Preface: The story of all stories - CHAPTER 1 Nosedive: Everyday life as dystopia and catastrophe - More real than reality - Trauma: - Psychological terrorism and nihilistic euphoria - Dancing on the ruins, or ‘Hang the DJ’ - Permanent orgy and freedom on probation - Wireless chains - The clearing - Extension of the realm of alienation - The - CHAPTER 2 The expense of the grotesque - For a theory of the superficial - Eaten alive, from The to Vore - The bodies that cross the black screen and what they find on the other side: - The return of Rachel: The memory-body or the possibility of betrayal - Appointment at San Junipero: The recorded-body - ‘Diaspora’ of the body: Instructions for - CHAPTER 3 Dawn in the woods where things have no name - An analogical mirror - and : Transmedia fetishes - Hyperstition: An outdated perfect future - Black Mirror: A dark, unplayable game - Derealising reality: beyond quantum physics - Interference as anticipation: The time of - CHAPTER 4 Shut Up and Dance: Sacrifice and the new flesh - The museum, death and the perfect crime - Sparks and drifts of modern times - The invisible empire - Filmic excursus - They are and they live in us: Man is obsolete - Opening: Destroy Black Mirror - Postscript - Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Claudia Attimonelli is Professor of Visual Studies and Digital Culture and coordinator of the Gender Archive at the University of Bari Aldo Moro. She is a sociosemiologist and the author of several books exploring visual culture, music, technology and gender, including Techno: Ritmi afrofuturisti (2008), Pornocultura (with V. Susca, 2016), L’estetica del malessere (2020), and L’elettronica è donna (with C. Tomeo, 2022).
Vincenzo Susca is Professor of Sociology of the Imaginary and a researcher at LEIRIS, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier. He is the author of several books, translated into various languages, exploring the relationships between the imaginary, media and everyday life, including Les a inités connectives (2016), Tecnomagia (2022), Depois da arte (2025) and Bello da morire (2026).