The Capitalist Realism of Black Mirror

Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror offers dystopian visions of post-capitalist futures. This video examines Fifteen Million Merits and Nosedive, considers just how they fit within a Capitalist Realist framework, and determines just how these programs might give us a glimpse of post-capitalist societies. Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism http://www.zero-books.net/books/capit... Edmund Berger's Uncertain Futures http://www.zero-books.net/books/uncer... Some of the music in this episode was created by Jukedeck. https://www.jukedeck.com