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Humanity in a Black Mirror: Essays on Posthuman Fantasies in a Technological Near Future

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The presentation of technology as a response to human want or need is a defining aspect of Black Mirror, a series that centers the transhumanist conviction that ontological deficiency is a solvable problem. The articles in this collection continue Black Mirror's examination of the transhuman need for plentitude, addressing the convergence of fantasy, the posthuman, and the dramatization of fear. The contributors contend that Black Mirror reveals both the cracks of the posthuman self and the formation of anxiety within fantasy's empty, yet necessary, economy of desire.

The strength of the series lies in its ability to disrupt the visibility of technology, no longer portraying it as a naturalized, unseen background, affecting our very being at the ontological level without many of us realizing it. This volume of essays argues that this negative lesson is Black Mirror's most successful approach. It examines how Black Mirror demonstrates the Janus-like structure of fantasy, as well as how it teaches, unteaches, and reteaches us about desire in a technological world.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 286g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Jan 2023
  • Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781476683829

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Jacob Blevins is professor and chair of English at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville Texas. He is the editor of the journal Intertexts and the author or editor of six books. Zahi Zalloua is the Cushing Eells professor of philosophy and literature and a professor of French and interdisciplinary studies at Whitman College in Walla Walla Washington and editor of The Comparatist. He is the author or co-author of seven books.

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