Memory restlessness. Technology and amplified memories in Black Mirror series
Journal Title: PAAKAT: Revista de Tecnología y Sociedad - Year 2019, Vol 9, Issue 16
Abstract
One of the recurring themes in contemporary audiovisual science fiction has revolved around the relationship between memory and technology. In these types of stories, the social and individual implications of a transhuman memory, that is, technologically improved or augmented, have been approached with relative frequency. In this paper, I intend to analyze how the relationship between memory and technology has been represented in the successful television fiction series Black Mirror. From an approach based on studies on cultural memory and television fiction, and from the analysis of qualitative content, I specifically examine two chapters that explicitly thematize the relationships between memory and technology: The Entire History of You (2011) and Crocodile (2017). The results of the analysis show how, in these episodes, the irruption of mnemotechnological innovations leads to a decentering around the very concepts of remembering and forgetting, upsetting the limits between registration and recall, between the archive and memory, between personal and public and even between past and present. In these chapters, the social and human reaches of the amplification by technological prostheses of the biological capacities of registration, storage and recovery of memory are delineated critically from two fundamental axes: on the one hand, memory as an object of compulsive consumption, and on the other, memory as an object of social control.
Authors and Affiliations
Janny Amaya Trujillo
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP561097
- DOI -
- Views 147
- Downloads 0
Construct and sustain a physical-virtual network of a research institute: case DHD-IRICE
The article presents a preliminary multidimensional analysis of the dhd-irice case study, which addressed the physical-virtual organizational redesign of the Rosario Institute for Research in Educational Sciences (irice)...
The flag of France on Facebook: a debate on identity, ideology and globalization
In recent years, social media have incorporated into their communications the use of filters for published images, specifically, the profile photos. Within Facebook, these image filters have been presented frequently to...
The Eternal return: analysis of the temporal conception in the Dark series of Netflix
This work analyzes the conceptualization of the time treated in Dark TV series (Daran bo Odar, Jantje Friese, 2017), broadcasted by Netflix digital platform. The argument presents the conception of time as something cycl...
Technology and its relation to design, as students understand them when choosing Graphic Design as a career at Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina (National University of San Juan - Argentina)
This work presents the results of a research conducted during the 2016-2017 academic period in the School of Architecture, Urban Planning and Design, National University of San Juan – Argentina (Facultad de Arquitectura,...
Artificial intelligences and the problem of consciousness
A major difficulty for the engineers and designers of artificial intelligence (AI) systems has been to replicate consciousness. After all, it has always been assumed that only living beings may be conscious or not. The p...