A ‘Mirror’ to Our Souls
April 20, 2018 · Books & Arts, Black Mirror, Netflix
The darkest show on TV—Netflix’s tech-dystopian ‘Black Mirror’—is itself a sign of hope for a human future.
Michael Saler is a historian and professor at the University of California, Davis, specializing in modern European cultural and intellectual history. He is known for his scholarship on modernity, enchantment, and the history of the imagination. He contributed a piece to The Weekly Standard in 2018.
The darkest show on TV—Netflix’s tech-dystopian ‘Black Mirror’—is itself a sign of hope for a human future.