REFLEXOS DISTÓPICOS DO PRESENTE: UM ESTUDO SOBRE OS PERSONAGENS CONCEITUAIS EM BLACK MIRROR

Abstract

Taking into account that entertainment can also be a connection strategy between the rational and the emotional by making use of aesthetic effects of great impact on human sensitivity, this work seeks to explain to what extent it is possible to find dystopian conceptual characters in the Black Mirror series . To do so, we will approach the first two seasons, produced for a British open channel, and the third season produced by the Netflix streaming system, since we understand both moments as a process of narrative rupture and audiovisual production. For the discussion, we make a parallel between the plane of composition of Art and the plane of immanence of Philosophy, proposed by Deleuze and Guattari, in order to verify the sliding of the blocks of sensations present in the series that affect us in different ways. The idea of conceptual characters rises to singularities and increases the range of the Deleuze-Guattarian philosophical conception, by establishing true zones of neighborhood between art - in the case of this study, the audiovisual - and philosophy. In this way, this approximation between the two fields allows us to think about the potential of dystopian discourse in our daily lives and our human-machine relationship.