Black Mirror

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'Black Mirror: Allegories for the Atomised is a brilliant exploration of the shifting relations between culture, technology institutions and our identity. While keeping the television series centre stage, Singh eloquently unravels the complexities of the changing power dynamics in our technologically mediated era. In so doing he illuminates how Black Mirror prompts further consideration of ourselves and our agency in the post-digital age. This is cutting edge cultural criticism whose publication could not be more timely.'

Luke Hockley PHd, Emeritus Professor, University of Bedfordshire, and Honorary Professor, University of Essex

'For all its science-fictional trappings, Black Mirror's morbid realism is very precisely about the here-and-now, the years after we kind of gave up and drifted into somehow pretending that all this [*gestures*] was the least bad of all possible worlds. Brooker's show and Singh's smart little book take us on a guided tour of identity identity, memory, desire and affect in our technologically-saturated, totally surveilled and utterly insidious dystopia. Read it and weep.'

Mark Bould, Professor of Film and Literature, University of the West of England