The post is saying how black mirror gives a representation of how technology is starting to take over people and they are becoming obsessed with the idea of it. It is saying how we buy things that don't exist and want to watch other people's lives on TV, so we don't care so much for ourselves and are becoming lost in the idea of the virtual world. It also demonstrates how we rely on TV and are becoming submersed into it; we want things shown from adverts and put time and money into it.
Screens replace reality, reflect emptiness
Irony - Bing's speech - buying shit we don't need - apps, avatar
Black mirror - more Pomo - uses theoretical - awareness - a message - after X factor
Black mirror is almost like a warning - mention in intro
Wreck it Ralph doesn't deliberately use theoretical approach - uses stylistic approach (Jameson) - nostalgia
Wreck it Ralph - stylistic
Historical
Black mirror, stylistic
Historical & theoretical
Commodity - product
Parasitic relationship - if nobody goes to work then the 99% collapse - won't do because it's all they know - world will become dystopia - fear
Our view of reality is created by the 1% who give us this view
Society of the spectale - deborde - black mirror - warning
Screenshot 1 - dystopia, technology is taking over and people have lack of control over it, no belief in progress
2 - grand narrative because he has morals and is saving people, good vs evil
3 - both because she is a tom boy princess, woman in power, celebrates the individual in her
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