The opposites that don't oppose

narratives of fear and ecstasy about the end of the humankind from the technological Singularity and Black Mirror.

Authors

  • Fabiano Galletti Faleiros Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/khronos.v0i9.171670

Keywords:

Narratives, End of humankind, Technological Singularity, Black Mirror, Gilbert Simondon

Abstract

This article proposes to debate the statements of the technological Singularity and those of the Black Mirror series as fragments of the same narrative. Although they present opposite views about technical development, there’s an agreement that soon humans shall disappear, suppressed by technological progress. The aim of this work is to bring forward, through Gilbert Simondon’s work, a critique of Singularity’s technophilic postulates, as well as Black Mirror’s technophobic statements, in order to elucidate how fear or ecstasy about human’s overcoming by the machine concerns to the sectarian ignorance around existence of technical objects rather than to our end.

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Published

2020-07-11

Issue

No. 9 (2020): Science fiction and the history of science and technology

Section

Dossier "Science fiction and history of science and technology"

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How to Cite

Faleiros, F. G. (2020). The opposites that don’t oppose: narratives of fear and ecstasy about the end of the humankind from the technological Singularity and Black Mirror. Khronos, 9, 81-100. https://doi.org/10.11606/khronos.v0i9.171670

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