A “black mirror” of the future: metaphors of technology, consciousness, and transhumanism in the series Black Mirror Cover Image

„Czarne zwierciadło” przyszłości: metafory technologii, świadomości i transhumanizmu ukazane w serialu "Black Mirror"
A “black mirror” of the future: metaphors of technology, consciousness, and transhumanism in the series Black Mirror

Author(s): Aleksandra Mirek-Rogowska, Kamila Rączy
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Media studies, Communication studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: media metaphors; transhumanism; digital consciousness; technological control; algorithmic emotions;

Summary/Abstract: This article offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the Black Mirror series as an audiovisual medium representing metaphors of technology, consciousness and transhumanism. It reconstructs the key structural elements present in selected episodes, emphasising their cognitive, emotional, and critical functions. The study demonstrates how multimodal metaphors operating through image, sound and narrative portray digital technologies as tools of control, emotional expression, memory archiving and the post-biological transformation of subjectivity. It situates Black Mirror within contemporary research on digital culture and the philosophy of technology, treating the series as a speculative cultural laboratory in which the boundaries of humanity, emotion, and identity are explored in the age of the algorithmic society.

  • Issue Year: 17/2025
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 173-189
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish
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