Black Mirror

<p><i>Black Mirror: Allegories for the Atomised </i>addresses the ways that media and communications technologies shape our relationships with society with others and ultimately with ourselves.</p><p>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 <i>Black Mirror</i> – 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 which shape our reality and call into question our assumed notions of personhood.</p><p>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.</p>