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Forgetting and Forgiving in an Age of Total Recall
This chapter examines how Borges’s story “Funes the Memorious” [“Funes el memorioso”] and the Black Mirror episode “The Entire History of You” complicate our ordinary understanding of memory as a kind of mental p...
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Executable Code
The “Bandersnatch” episode of Black Mirror has been widely hailed as a groundbreaking effort to combine elements of interactivity generally associated with gaming and the video streaming experience. This chapter ...
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Possessed by the Mirror
A discussion of Borges’s early tale “The Mirror of Ink” and the title sequence of Brooker’s Black Mirror series lays the groundwork for the introduction of some of the key themes to be addressed in the volume. Th...
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Nostalgia, the Virtual, and the Artifice of Eternity
“San Junipero” (S03:E04) has been hailed as an uncharacteristically sunny tale in a television series better known for its bleak, dystopian view of the impact of new technologies on social relationships. Set p...
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Teenage Zombie Wasteland: Suburbia after the Apocalypse in Mike Wilson’s Zombie and Edmundo Paz Soldán’s Los vivos y los muertos
Awit once remarked that the surest sign that a cultural trend is dead is that Newsweek has finally reported on it. It’s scarcely possible these days to broach the topic of the zombie in pop culture without feelin...
