Black Mirror’s episode Be right back: technologies, finitude, and the art of finding an end

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  • Maria Cristina Franco Ferraz Universidade Federal Fluminense

Keywords:

Black Mirror, Faustic notion of technology, contemporary culture, finitude

Abstract

The paper analyses Black Mirror’s episode Be right Back in order to discuss certain contemporary issues concerning the technological agenda. It highlights its Faustic inflexion such as emphasized by the Portuguese sociologist Hermínio Martins, and relates this question to José Gil’s investigations on the closure of the porosity of the skin, as well as its effects on the corrosion of Eros. Finally, it refers to the Nietzschean art of finding an end as a counterpoint to the sufferings related to loss and finitude, which constitute the central problem explored in Be right back.

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Author Biography

Maria Cristina Franco Ferraz, Universidade Federal Fluminense

Maria Cristina Franco Ferraz é Professora Titular de Teoria da Comunicação da UFF, pesquisadora do CNPq, doutora em Filosofia pela Universidade de Paris I - Sorbonne (1992), com três estágios de pós-doutoramento em Berlim (Instituto Max Planck de História da Ciência, em 2004, e Centro de Pesquisa em Literatura e Cultura, em 2007 e 2010). Coordena na UFF o Doutorado Internacional Erasmus Mundus “Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones”. Publicou os seguintes livros: Nietzsche, o bufão dos deuses (Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumará, 1994/Ediouro: 2009 e Paris: Harmattan, 1998), Platão: as artimanhas do fingimento (Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumará, 1999/Ediouro: 2009 e Lisboa: Nova Vega, 2010), Nove variações sobre temas nietzschianos (Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumará, 2002) e Homo deletabilis - corpo, percepção, esquecimento: do século XIX ao XXI - (Rio de Janeiro: Garamond, 2010).

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Published

2019-06-15

Issue

No. 41 (2019)

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Artigos | Articles

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