Theology and Black Mirror
Theology and Black Mirror
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN: 9781978711167
Number of Pages: 354
Published: 14/04/2022
Width: 16 cm
Height: 22.6 cm
Black Mirror, Netflix’s dystopian anthology, probes what it means to be human in a technological world. While the show raises interesting, if not disturbing, questions, it refrains from giving answers, putting the onus on viewers to continue the conversation. Accordingly, Theology and Black Mirror engages questions and prominent themes in the show with resources from the Christian tradition, including the academic disciplines of biblical studies, theology, philosophy, and ethics.
More Than Meets the Eye: An Introduction to Theology and Black Mirror
Amber Bowen and John Anthony Dunne
Part 1. Agency and Conditioning
1. Ethics through a Dark Lens: Ellul’s Technological Morality in Black Mirror
Peter Anderson
2. Barbarism, Boredom, and the Question Concerning Pornography in Fifteen Million Merits
Amber Bowen
3. Free Will and (In)determinism in Hang the DJ
Taylor W. Cyr
4. Too Many Twos: Ashley and the Artificial Authentic
Elizabeth Howard
5. Smithereens as Technological Theodicy: Addiction, Emergence, and Resistance
John Anthony Dunne
Part 2. Idols and Anti-Christs
6. Arkangel and the Death of God: A Nietzschean Critique of Technology’s Soteriological Scheme
Amber Bowen and Megan Fritts
7. Seeing and Being Seen in a Black Mirror, Dimly: Phenomenology and the Dim View of White Christmas
King-Ho Leung and Patrick McGlinchey
8. Evil Gods and the USS Callister
Celina Durgin and Dru Johnson
Part 3. Truth and Justice
9. Crowdsourcing Judgment: The Dark Side of Justi
