Season 6 of Netflix’s Black Mirror is out, and we reflect on the first three episodes of the new season— from the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes to the true crime “obsession” to companies “winking” at social justice. But imagining futures is not a neutral enterprise. Does Black Mirror contribute to the colonizing of the future through Western domination?

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Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Futurity

José Esteban Muñoz

No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive

Lee Edelman

Rescuing All Our Futures: The Future of Futures Studies

Ziauddin Sardar

Colonizing the Future: the ‘Other” Dimension of Futures Studies

Feminism's Apocalyptic Futures 

Robyn Wiegman

The Loneliest Americans

Jay Caspian Kang

The Revolution Will Not Be Psychologized, Part 2 (Interview w/ Báyò Akómoláfé)

The Emerald

‘Black Mirror’ Creator Had ChatGPT Write an Episode and It Was ‘S—‘: ‘There’s Not Any Real Original Thought Here’

Zack Sharf

‘Black Mirror’s “Loch Henry” Episode Draws Tourists to Scotland Proving That Nobody Understands the Show

Raven Brunner

‘Black Mirror’ Creator Charlie Brooker Wants Fans to Remember It’s Never Just Been the ‘Tech Is Bad’ Show

SAMANTHA BERGESON

Writers Are Not Keeping Up

WGA

The 2023 Hollywood Strike for Dummies

Jason P. Frank

Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas — for free, forever

Andrew Webster