Abstract

PASSOS, Daniela Oliveira Ramos dos  and  CAETANO, Paulo Roberto Barreto. JOB: emptiness and spoliation in Fifteen Million Merits (Black Mirror). Revista Teias [online]. 2020, vol.21, n.60, pp.232-241.  Epub May 25, 2020. ISSN 1982-0305.  https://doi.org/10.12957/teias.2020.48648.

The article discusses how is the dispossession and subjugation of the individual through work on Fifteen Million Merits (2011). In this episode of Black Mirror series, you can see a lack of distinction between working hours and life outside of work as well if notices a spectacle process of the individual singularities, to transform merchandise various aspects of subjectivity an acute process of subjectivity and blunted. The protagonist, to disengage the shackles, adopts a posture of pragmatic abstention, apparently. These characteristics are commented from the notion of critique of capital and dehumanizing work processes of Karl Marx, in addition to disciplining the subjects by E. P. Thompson, as well as bio-politics of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze's body without organs.

Keywords : work; spetacle; Black Mirror.

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