Living on Beyond the Body: The Digital Soul of Black Mirror
Abstract
The desire for immortality is part of the human condition. Tales of immortal beings, and of means through which humans too can cheat death, are part of mythologies worldwide. Great minds have spent lifetimes seeking a cure for death. It is easy, today, to dismiss alchemy and the search for the philosopher’s stone as childish nonsense, but it was a quest which occupied kings and scientists alike. Today, our hopes have turned to digital technologies, and the promise of a lengthened—or unending—lifespan.
Book Title
The Moral Uncanny in Black Mirror
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Subject
Cultural studies
Human society
Social theory