Screen technologies and the imaginary of punishment: A reading of Black Mirror’s ‘White Bear’

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Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication 7 (1):3-22 (2016)
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This article explores how the TV series Black Mirror is evidence that entertaining TV series can provide us with highly elaborated critical thinking about crime and punishment. Based on the premise that society owns social imaginaries to guide our individual orientation, we explore the connection between screen technologies and our criminal imaginaries in this TV series. The article relates the aims of punishment according to criminal theory – prevention, retribution and rehabilitation – with two images that appear in episode 2.2 ‘White Bear’: the monster and its lynching.

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