Keywords
transhumanism
digital consciousness
technological control
algorithmic emotions metafory medialne
transhumanizm
świadomość cyfrowa
kontrola technologiczna
emocje algorytmiczne
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Abstract
This article provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the Black Mirror series as an audiovisual medium representing metaphors of technology, consciousness and transhumanism. It reconstructs the key structural elements present in selected episodes, emphasising their cognitive, emotional, and critical functions. The study demonstrates how multimodal metaphors operating through image, sound and narrative portray digital technologies as tools of control, emotional expression, memory archiving and the post-biological transformation of subjectivity. It situates Black Mirror within contemporary research on digital culture and the philosophy of technology, treating the series as a speculative cultural laboratory in which the boundaries of humanity, emotion, and identity are explored in the age of algorithmic society.
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