Abstract
The final chapter of the first part of the book is dedicated to the examination of the popular TV series Black Mirror. In particular, the analysis is centred upon the episode Nosedive (3x01, 2016), highlighting how it enacts specific chronotopic dimensions of anxiety connected with the dynamics of digital labour and of the algorithmic capitalism. These same chronotopic motifs will be associated with experiential patterns presented in other episodes of the series.
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Sticchi, F. (2021). Black Mirror and Nosedive: Becoming Algorithm. In: Mapping Precarity in Contemporary Cinema and Television. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63261-8_6
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