The future is broken: heterotopic readings of Black Mirror

Abstract

The text makes an interpretation of Black Mirror, a futuristic television series that reveals a technological dystopia. The article analyzes, from a philosophical-critical approach, the crisis of subjectivation in the technology era. The television series Black Mirror forces the audience to think about how digital life afects the world of politics, our memory, our corporeal area and sociability. The text concludes that Black Mirror leaves open-ended questions about the possibilities of resistance and other possible methods of subjectivity.