ECS 189 – Black Mirror – Spring 2024

From Black Mirror S1E2: Fifteen Million Merits, the first episode we’ll watch This page last updated 4/25/2024 at 1am

Announcements

• The current set of episodes we are viewing deal with race, violence, war, and carcerality. Let’s also discuss Israel’s war on Gaza and the technology of control.

General Information

• Syllabus – has some unexpected things – read it
• Schedule – what we did each class meeting
• Canvas – to upload your work
• Gradescope – to “return” quizzes

Resources

• Netflix: Black Mirror
• Amazon: Twilight Zone
• Inside Black Mirror (Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones) (2018)
• Black Mirror and Philosophy (David Kyle Johnson, editor) (2019)
• Wikipedia: List of Black Mirror episodes

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