Rezension: Reading „Black Mirror“. Insights into Technology and the Post-Media Condition

von German A. Duarte und Justin Michael Battin (Hg.)

Abstract

This publication brings together different perspectives, theories and questions around the dystopian series “Black Mirror” (UK, 2011–2019). Like hardly any other contemporary media product, the British series by Charlie Brooker provokes academic and also emotional confrontations with our society, its technologies and fears. The anthology offers a range of perspectives that are sometimes more, sometimes less able to escape the fatalistic pull of “Black Mirror” and forms a good starting point for a deeper analysis of the five-season universe, although the focus is mostly on selected episodes that have received a lot of attention.