Black Mirror Reflections: Colonizing Futures, True Crime, and Metamodernism

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UnLivable Cultures

Unlivable Cultures

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Because the world is actively made unlivable for too many. Join Julia, Clayton, and Cody as they experiment with social theory, politics of liberation and solidarity, and real world issues to question: How can we make livable cultures? Follow our Twitter (@unlivablepod) for sneak peaks of new episode topics before they release. More information at unlivablecultures.wordpress.com.

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Black Mirror Reflections: Colonizing Futures, True Crime, and Metamodernism

UnLivable Cultures

55 minutes 28 seconds

2 years ago

Black Mirror Reflections: Colonizing Futures, True Crime, and Metamodernism

Season 6 of Netflix’s Black Mirror is out, and we reflect on the first three episodes of the new season— from the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes to the true crime “obsession” to companies “winking” at social justice. But imagining futures is not a neutral enterprise. Does Black Mirror contribute to the colonizing of the future through Western domination?

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Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Futurity

José Esteban Muñoz

No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive

Lee Edelman

Rescuing All Our Futures: The Future of Futures Studies

Ziauddin Sardar

Colonizing the Future: the ‘Other” Dimension of Futures Studies Ziauddin Sardar

Feminism's Apocalyptic Futures

Robyn Wiegman

The Loneliest Americans

Jay Caspian Kang