Black Mirror (S03E01) ou de l'imperfectionnisme moral à l'écran. Quelles voies pour une vie bonne et connectée ?

• Main Author: Laurence Allard
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Groupe de Recherche Identités et Cultures 2021-05-01
• Series: TV Series
• Subjects: Black Mirror; imperfectionism; dystopia; low tech; connected
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/tvseries/5440

This article would like to focus on a well-known episode of the British series Black Mirror, created by Charlie Brooker and broadcast on Channel 4 (2011-2014), then on Netflix (2016-), “Nosedive”, the first episode of the third season (2016). We will focus in particular on typifying the social-digital forms of life that are caricatured in it according to a prospective of moral imperfectionism. This horizon of moral imperfectionism questions Stanley Cavell's vision of interpersonal relations as a necessary substratum for the possibility of transforming our society. We will propose a critical path/voice that allows us to escape the passive consumption of dystopia in favor of a “contre-faire” and a re-creation of another sustainable connected world.