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Reintegrating Severance: Interdisciplinary Insights on Apple TV’s Dystopian Thriller

Editat de Nora M. Isacoff, Jennifer Dawes
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 aug 2024
This edited collection is an interdisciplinary examination of Apple TV's Severance, in which employees of a biotech firm consent to having their brains severed so that their work selves and non-work selves do not retain each other’s memories. What transpires is a reckoning with the very nature of the self, consciousness, and memory, through a series steeped in explorations of capitalism, social welfare, and bioethics. Chapters in this book examine the popularity and critical acclaim surrounding the show; its retrofuturistic asethetic; its commentary on popular culture and identity; and its engagement with nostalgia, among other topics.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783031574474
ISBN-10: 3031574478
Pagini: 250
Ilustrații: VIII, 342 p. 18 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Ediția:2024
Editura: Springer Nature Switzerland
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Constructing History.- Chapter 2: “Who are you?”: Memory, History, and Nostalgia on the Severed Floor.- Chapter 3: The Grim Barbarity of Capitalist Designs: Class Conflict, Corporate Dystopia, and the Sacred Gaze in Severance.- Chapter 4: Severed From Reality: The Irrationality of Rationality in Advanced Stage Capitalism.- Part II: Art and Architecture.- Chapter 5: Art as an Apparatus of the Invisible Sublime in Severance.- Chapter 6: Mapping the Subject through Severance’s Corporate Architecture and Design.- Chapter 7: Resisting the Innie/Outie Dichotomy Through Mundane Encounters: In Defense of “Spaces of Transition”.- Part III: Agency, Autonomy, and Alienation.- Chapter 8: An Investigation of Marxist Alienation in the Post-Modern Workplace in Apple TV's Severance.- Chapter 9: Brain Eugenics: How to Produce an Ideal Worker?.- Chapter 10: “Defiant Jazz”: Corporate Rewards as Plantation-Style Oppression in Apple TV’s Severance.- Chapter 11: The Waffle Party is Not What It Seems: Sexual, Reproductive, and Labor Exploitation in Severance.- Part IV Multifaceted Bodies and Minds.- Chapter 12: The Aesthetic Virtue of the Severance Procedure: Pledging Spectatorial Allegiance to Both Innies and Outies.- Chapter 13: “Actively Caring For Mankind Since 1866”: Nineteenth-Century Medicine, Pain, and the Worker’s Body in Season One of Severance.- Chapter 14: “The Mystery of Your Youthful Energy”: Time, History, and the Representation of Queer Aging in Severance.- Chapter 15: Self-Communication in Severed Minds: Perspectives from Neuroscience, Psychology, and Philosophy.

Notă biografică

Jennifer Dawes is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English, Humanities, and Philosophy at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, USA. She has previously published on Dark Tourism in the American West and on western narratives. She teaches classes in film and literature and has included episodes of Severance in her class “Technology and Consciousness in Film and Television.”
Nora M. Isacoff holds appointments at both Columbia University and New York University, USA, where she teaches interdisciplinary seminars such as “Consciousness and Cognitive Science” and “Language and Mind.” Her research and writing integrate scientific and humanistic approaches to exploring the nature of mind and consciousness. She is the co-author of the book Data and Teaching: Moving beyond Magical Thinking to Effective Practice (Teachers College Press).


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"Reintegrating Severance provides a much-needed deep scholarly dive into one of the most philosophically interesting streaming series being made today. For anyone who loves the show, and for everyone interested in how popular culture moves scholarly conversations forward, the book is a must-read.”
--David Kyle Johnson, author of Sci-Phi: Science Fiction as Philosophy and editor of Black Mirror and Philosophy: Dark Reflections
 
Manifesting the zeitgeist of our post-pandemic world, AppleTV’s Severance probes the margins of work-life balance, the medicalization of normal human emotions, and the turbulence of disinformation, resistance, and reclamation. Fundamentally, the series grapples with systemization – how we organize and construct our histories, art and architecture, social orders, and bodies and minds. Written for both fans and scholars, Reintegrating Severance collects fifteen critical essays, each offering deep insights into an issue spurred by the series.  Constructing History explores identity in the context of historical revisionism and corporate mythology; Art & Architecture builds on the first section by exploring the use of visual culture in shaping collective and personal stories; Agency, Autonomy, and Alienation dives deep into the political theories that earlier chapters have touched upon; finally, Multifaceted Bodies andMinds strays from, and ultimately finds a way back to, the intuitive wisdom and intraconnection of the self.
 
 
Nora M. Isacoff
Nora M. Isacoff’s scholarship integrates scientific and humanistic approaches to exploring mind, meaning, consciousness, and collaboration. She is the Founding Director of the New York Institute for Cognitive Science and the Humanities and holds appointments at Columbia University and New York University, where she teaches interdisciplinary seminars such as “Consciousness and Cognitive Science” and “Language and Mind.” She co-authored the book Data and Teaching (TC Press).
 
Jennifer Dawes
Jennifer Dawes is a professor of English and Chair of the Department of English, Humanities, and Philosophy at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, where she teaches classes in cultural studies, writing,and film. She has previously published on Dark Tourism in the American West and on Western narratives.
 
 


Caracteristici

Offers a comprehensive scholarly consideration of a popular TV series The first book entirely devoted to Severance Its interdisciplinarity will appeal to scholars across various fields