Through the Black Mirror

Introduction: Read that back to yourself and ask if you live in a sane society, Terence McSweeney and Stuart Joy.- Part I.- "The National Anthem", Terrorism and Digital Media, Fran Pheasant Kelly.- "Fifteen Million Merits": Gamification, Spectacle, and Neoliberal Aspiration, Mark R. Johnson.- Enhanced Memory: "The Entire History of You", Henry Jenkins.- Part II.- Making Room for Our Personal Posthuman Prisons: "Be Right Back", Andrew Schopp.- Charlie Brooker's "White Bear": Ideological State Apparatuses, Perversions of Courtly Love, and Curatorial Violence, Paul Petrovic.- Political apathy, the ex post facto allegory and Waldo's Trumpian moment, Terence McSweeney.- We Have Only Ourselves to Fear:  Reflections on AI through the Black Mirror of "White Christmas", Christine Muller.- Part III.- The Planned Obsolescence of "Nosedive", Sean Redmond.- Augmented Reality Bites: "Playtest" and the Unstable Now, Soraya Murray.- Shame, Stigmaand Identification in "Shut Up and Dance", Stuart Joy.- Unreal City: Nostalgia, Authenticity, and Posthumanity in "San Junipero", Isra Daraiseh and M. Keith Booker.- Deviating The Other: Inspecting the Bounds of Progress in "Men Against Fire", Ana Dosen.- On Killer Bees and GCHQ: "Hated in the Nation", James Smith.- Part IV.- Dethroning the King of Space: Toxic White Masculinity and the Revised Adventure Narrative in "USS Callister", Steffen Hankte.- "Arkangel": Postscript on Families of Control, George F. McHendry, Jr..- The Sovereignty of Truth: Memory and Morality in "Crocodile", Jossalyn G. Larson.- Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before: Relationships and Late Capitalism in "Hang the DJ", Aidan Power.- Killing the Creator in "Metalhead", Barbara Gurr.- Hope, with Teeth: On "Black Museum", Gerry Canavan.- Change Your Past, Your Present, Your Future: Interactive Narratives and Trauma in Bandersnatch, Terence McSweeney and Stuart

Terence McSweeney is Senior Lecturer at Solent University, UK. He is the author of The 'War on Terror' and American Film: 9/11 Frames Per Second (2014), Avengers Assemble! Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2018) and editor of "In the Shadow of 9/11": American Cinema in the 'War on Terror' Era (2016).
Stuart Joy is Senior Lecturer at Solent University, UK, where he teaches Film and Television. He is the co-editor of, and contributor to The Cinema of Christopher Nolan: Imagining the Impossible (2015).