Nosedive: Segregated Disharmonies
Black Mirror | Charlie Brooker | 2016
Sofía Mignacca

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC)

Abstract:

This article examines the Nosedive episode of Black Mirror (Netflix, 2016) as a privileged material to reflect on contemporary processes of segregation from the perspective of Lacanian psychoanalysis. It explores how, in a context where the Other does not exist and ethics committees appear weakened, new forms of exclusion arise, linked to the rejection of disharmony and of any manifestation of subjective division. The analysis focuses on the scoring system that structures the characters’ lives, showing how the constant search for approval promotes homogenization and the suppression of affects labeled as negative. The notion of Un-dividualism is also discussed as a way of addressing subjectivities that attempt to sustain themselves without division, which undermines social bonds. Within this framework, psychoanalysis is oriented towards listening to what does not fit, to what emerges as discomfort or remainder, and towards opening a space where speech can host the subject’s constitutive division.

Keywords: psychoanalysis | segregation | happiness | technology | Un-dividualism.

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: Nosedive: Disarmonías segregadas


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