PEL Presents PMP#156: Black Mirror's Tech Horrors

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Casey, Paskin, Philosophy, Linsenmayer, Society & Culture, Alwan

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn, and Al talk about Charlie Brooker's British anthology TV series that began in 2011 and recently released its 6th season.

How has this show evolved from satirical science fiction to something more often just horror studies that study human nature? We talk about our favorite episodes and what does and doesn't work. Does the show have to be so dark to make its point? Does it always have a point, or is some of it just fun?

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by Green Chef, the number one meal kit for eating clean.
0:13.1	This is pretty much pop, a culture podcast.
0:15.6	Exactly as predicted in a 1949 dystopian novel by Alfred Bester.
0:20.3	Today we're discussing Black Mirror,
0:22.3	Charlie Lee Brookler's British anthology TV series that began in 2011, recently released its sixth
0:28.0	season. This is Mark Lisa Meyer, a company by a captured AI replicas of people that just look
0:33.6	cool to me on the street. Introduce yourselves. I'm Al Baker and I'm certainly not going to be what
0:40.4	you thought I was at the beginning of the episode. My name... That was lame. That was lame.
0:45.4	Oh, just wait, just wait. My name is Sarah Lynn Brook and surprise, I'm a werewolf now.
0:53.0	Hmm, spoilers. For the record, I love fucking love that episode, so I just want you to know that
0:59.1	like, I know you guys should love that episode. Anyway, my name is Lawrence Weir and since I am Black,
1:05.3	I am uniquely situated. Talk about Black Mirror. I did discover in doing a little bit of research,
1:11.0	actually walking dog right before this. I was looking at other podcasts talking about this.
1:15.3	And I found Charles W. Mills, world famous, philosopher of all things Black, who's now passed away.
1:24.4	What am I meant to leave? What am I meant to leave? Yes, talking about the episode White Bear of Black Mirror.
1:29.7	A whole hour of him talking about, wouldn't that be better than listening to us?
1:34.3	Switch over. No, no, no. It absolutely would not be. No, I'm listening to that episode and I know
1:40.8	Charles, I knew Charles very well and I loved him dearly. He was fucking boring. Like he was a boring
1:46.6	guy to listen to talk about stuff. So yeah, this is much better. All right. Well, we've got his AI.
1:51.9	We're going to bring him in later this episode. And I'll crank up the speed so that he's less boring.
1:59.8	You guys wanted to do this somehow. You said a weird reference of a book from 1940s in your intro.
2:07.1	What the hell was that? I just looked up 1940s sci-fi authors because I thought this podcast.
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