Marxism In Black Mirror

Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror is modeled as a classic television series like The Twilight Zone, Amazing Stories or Tails of the Unexpected in that it tackles an array of social phenomena and societal problems. Brooker describes the show as being about “the way we live now and the way we might be living in 10 minutes time if we are clumsy”@. Most of the episodes focus on how digital technology is altering our lives and not always for good. The entire history of the episodes “you be right back” White Christmas, 15 million merits, and nosedive all include plots or subplots involving internet culture but the last two go beyond critiquing Facebook, augmented reality, pop-up ads and the surveillance state that is making it all possible. In “15

He wrote that the wealth of those societies in which capitalist modes of production prevails presents itself as an immense accumulation of commodities and he defined a commodity as a useful item produced in order to create a surplus for the capitalist. Considering this difference between Marx and Deboard it's fair to say that the episode 15 million merits tells the story of an ideological spectacle that is the spectacle diverts people's political impulses, away from resistance. The screens keep people from leaving their bicycles but in the Black Miroro episode Nosedive we get a little closer to a true Society of the spectacle that is if we try to imagine an economy rather than a merely political spectacle. The first episode of the third season episode called nosedive gets us closer to that goal now technically there still is a world of work and money but the plot doesn't involve those aspects of society. In the world of the plot characters aren't motivated by money but by representations of themselves the characters creates images that themselves they represent themselves to the world and to each other by posting and liking things on social media and the accumulation of stars that they'd received. Their average score determines where they can live how they can travel what kind of career that might achieve and so on. The story of Nosedive isn't a story of exploitation but a much more human story what matters

in those guys on the other hand the main character never rebels against society directly but only turns against herself and it's only after she's landed herself in prison and she starts to be free enough to become any kind of threat to the system. Both episodes end in defeat but in Nosedive the main character is redeemed by her loss while in 15 Million Merits the hero is more thoroughly devastated. We will have to imagine a