'Black Mirror', Henri Bergson, and the Death of Creative Time with Emily Herring

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Is Black Mirror still speculative fiction—or just a stylized documentary of our present? In this episode, we dive into Black Mirror Season 7, Episode 1 ("Common People") with writer and philosopher Emily Herring, who recently explored the show’s themes of platform capitalism and cognitive exploitation in The New World. What does it mean to "subscribe" to your own mind, and how do concepts like enshittification, machinic enslavement, and time-debt shape our experience of autonomy? Along the way, we examine Henri Bergson’s philosophy of memory and duration, questioning whether the qualitative dimensions of consciousness can survive under techno-capitalist regimes.

Emily's article: https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/emily-herring-black-mirror-and-the-fight-to-keep-corporations-out-of-your-brain/

Emily Herring's 'Herald of a Restless World': https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/emily-herring/herald-of-a-restless-world/9781541600942/