Michael O'Neill
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Thanks for the thoughtful
Thanks for the thoughtful comments, Robert! I'm glad that you picked up on the deliberate referencing of Brooker's other television writing work in the examples I gave- this was partially to try and generate reflection on the themes and issues t ... -
WE ARE ALL STELARCS NOW.
Thanks for the kind words, Michael! Whenever posthumanism is brought up, I always think of Donna Haraway's assertion that "we are all chimeras" and "cyborgs" now, or Stelarc's robotic augmentations, or the speculative communi ... -
Hi there Sarah - thanks for
Hi there Sarah- thanks for your excellent observations, especially in the parallels drawn between "The Black Mirror Project" and the promotional viral videos of other contemporary sci-fi, as well as "The Entire History of You"'s e ... -
ARCHIVE TEAM.
You're absolutely correct about the inherent instability of the Web, given that it is endlessly iterative, shifting into new shapes, deploying new languages and killing old ones, making elements of its history either impossible to access or to read.. ... -
FIFTEEN MILLION MERITS... CONTINUED.
Interesting post, Michael. I must admit, Fifteen Million Merits was one of my least favourite Black Mirror episodes, primarily as it often seemed an overly "on-the-nose" lampooning of televisual form, celebrity/stardom and the commodification of ... -
IF YOU MEET YOUR DOUBLE, YOU SHOULD KILL HIM/IT.
This is a really good post Sarah, which raises lots of interesting ideas/issues. Some of which I have (lazily) bullet-pointed in order not to hog the page (an unbecoming habit)!- Artificial intelligence mimicking organic intelligence, leading the creation ...